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 are from COME WITH ME by Helen Schulman:
1. detritivores – “Intellectual detritivores, news-junkie arhropods, scandal-loving pill bugs, bottom feeders, creepers, slugs.”
A detritivore is an animal which feeds on dead organic material.
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2. cesium – “The cesium.”
It’s been a long time since I took chemistry. Cesium is a chemical element.
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3. contrapuntal – “The cesium.”
In between the mellow bass notes of his own (he’d hoped) soothing phrasing — take it easy, kid, take it easy — Dan could hear the agonizing contrapuntal sounds of his boy Jack frantically fighting for breath.
Contrapuntal means polyphonic. Polyphony means a style of musical composition employing two or more simultaneous but relatively independent melodic lines.
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What words do you want to celebrate today?
My music degree (and love of Bach) paid off today with contrapuntal 😀
Curious combination of words in that book. My word today is “Famine” — https://maefood.blogspot.com/2019/02/famine.html
best… mae
I guess detritivores are not cuddly!
I’d love to see how “detritivore” is used in the book.
Just for the record, I wasn’t able to leave a message today. I entered my website, and I kept getting the URL symbol. It must be something I didn’t do correctly.
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On Wed, Feb 27, 2019 at 12:01 AM Bermudaonion’s Weblog wrote:
> BermudaOnion posted: ” 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. ” >
“contrapuntal” is related to “counterpoint,” if you want an easier way to remember it. Like point and counterpoint. One note replies to another but also contributes to its own melodic line at the same time.
I knew the first two!
I agree – curious to know how detritivore is used in the book! Sounds like a great insult to have in one’s repertoire!
Kathy,
I knew cesium from my science classes, but the other two were new-to-me. I have read a different book by Helen Schulman. I hope you’re having a very good week.
I have heard cesium
No clue on either of them!
Or should I say any of them????