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miumiu22

Words to Learn

Apr 12, 2006 23:22

Right, so I've been trying to manually, albeit inconsistently increase my vocabulary by jotting down words the definitions of which I don't know for about two years now - with moderate success. If it hasn't been successful, at least part of the blame lies with how colossaly disorganized my palm-sized Moleskine has grown since I first peeled back ( Read more... )

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anonymous December 11 2006, 03:21:31 UTC

"soporiphic" is spelled soporific

It means inducing sleep or tending toward sleep.

morphine is soporific

i.e., I'm gonna drink morphine and die.
to die, to sleep, to sleep perchance to dream

laconic [does not equal] verbose; Hemingway's style is said to be laconic
it's interpolation (not the other spelling - the other one isn't a word), to interpolate = to insert between other parts

sorry, these gaps in your vocabulary are like open wounds

anonymous December 11 2006, 05:56:31 UTC

If you want to correct me, correct me. Admitting I don't know some words, and being honest about trying to self-educate should imply that I don't have much of an ego, but what's with the anonymous post?

anonymous December 12 2006, 02:34:54 UTC

"epistillary" is spelled epistolary

I don't have an open ID. I'm not a live journal user. Hence I'm anonymous.