Wondrous Words Wednesday
Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love. Feel free to get creative! If you want to play along, grab the button, write a post and come back and add your link to Mr. Linky!
Today’s post is brought to you by the letter F – I chose all of these words because they start with that fabulously fantastic letter! I obviously need to step up my reading because, once again, I had to rely on my handy Word-a-Day Calendar.
1. fugleman – “David Mamet has long been American drama’s fugleman of four-letter words.” — James C. Taylor, Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2005
David Mamet must have quite a salty vocabulary since fugleman means one at the head or forefront of a group or movement.
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2. festinate – ““I assure you sir,” said the ambassador, “I am all too aware of the dangers inherent in a festinate decision.””
Festinate is a fancy was of saying hasty.
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3. fatidic – “I hope the dream I had last night about losing my wedding ring doesn’t prove fatidic.”
Fatidic means of or relating to prophecy.
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What words do you want to celebrate today?
Festinate was vaguely familiar, but you stumped me on the others. Great words, Kathy!
Totally clueless on the meaning of your “f” words
Wow, you got me all three times.I’m going to try to use “festinate” today
For once, I like these F words
These are all new to me.
Love all three of these!
Now I’m curious about this David Mamet, but I don’t think I’d like to listen to him
All new to me, and every one a gem! I’ll definitely be using all three of these.
I love posts brought to us by a particular letter! :–)
All of these are new F words for me! I like them all, and will have to write them down. It’s always so thrilling to see what you are going to come up with each week! I never knew there were quite so many words that I was unaware of!
Hey Kathy- Glad we are not being graded, because I did not know ANY of these today! Thanks for hosting
Hi Kathy,
I definitely need to get myself one of those Word-A-Day Calendars, my education is obviously woefully lacking, as I didn’t have a clue about any of your ‘F’ words today!!
They do all sound like words which wouldn’t be in general usage today and I particularly like ‘festinate’, although I would never have thought that it would be matched with its definition.
Great post, really interesting.
Yvonne
I could only figure out the last one because of the context of the sentence! Good ones!
Your F words were all new to me. I really like fugleman. It’s one I’m going to make a point to use today so I, hopefully, remember it.
Nice f words,learned some new ones today.
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Those are mighty fine words and I have never heard of any of them!
These are really good words! I must try to remember them.
Improving vocabularies, three words at a time
Beth ^_^
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It’s Funny that all your words this week start with F.
All new to me. I like festinate and will be making that word “mine”. I’ll have to try that one out on my grandkids.
I know festinating, because Parkinson’s patients are described as having a festinating gait, but I’d forgottten that it meant to hurry. The others are new to me too.
Ahhhh…my brain muscles are exercising!!:D Great words!