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!

I haven’t found any words in my reading lately so I had to rely on my Word-a-Day calendar this week.

1. elysian – “The summer, in some climates, makes possilbe to man a sort of Elysian life.” — Henry David Thoreau, WALDEN

Elysian is an adjective that’s often capitalized.  It means blissful or delightful.  There’s a brewery named Elysian that was purchased by AB InBev.  The fact that they’re owned by AB InBev makes them anything but blissful or delightful to me but that’s a topic for another day.

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2. cliometrics – “Using cliometrics, the researchers categorized and analyzed the statistical data they had amased.”

The application of methods developed in other fields to the study of history.

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3. nosocoial – “Mariah was told that she had developed a nosocomial infection that would need to be monitored by the hospital staff for at least another 24 hours.”

Nosocomial means acquired or occurring in a hospital.

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What words do you want to celebrate today?