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!
This week’s words came from MY ABSOLUTE DARLING by Gabriel Tallent.
1 & 2. condyle, volute – “Martin gestures to the lattice of bones, the grooved condyles like volute woodwork, the marrow crawling in the pipings, tendons glazed to the bone.”
Condyle is a noun that means a rounded protuberance at the end of some bones, forming an articulation with another bone.
Volute is an adjective that means forming a spiral curve or curves.
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What words do you want to celebrate today?
Very intriguing sentence! Were they doing an autopsy?
Nice words!
My blog is wordless today: https://maefood.blogspot.com/2019/01/wordless-wednesday-brookgreen-gardens.html
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Both were (very) vaguely familiar.
Both are new to me, even though I feel like I should know volute. The sentence does make you wonder what’s going on.
I echo what Lloyd said!
Both words are new to me. Nice to find two words in one sentence.
I can’t even picture those bones!
Kathy, thank you for sharing your two new-to-me words, and for hosting WWW each week. I chanced upon a great word today, and so I’m participating again, at long last! (I tried to add my link, although I am not sure that it appears.) 🙂
Oh, good! I see my link now. 🙂
Both are new to me.
Condyle sounds like a dinosaur name! 😂 Thank you for teaching me something new today! I didn’t have a word this week, but hopefully next week! 🙂😊
Oooh! I bet you’ll find a lot of words in this book. If I remember exactly, there were a ton of plant descriptions! 🙂