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[smithy161]

Okay, I've decided what my new year's resolution is: I'm going to significantly expand my vocabulary.

This will be my post for listing new words learned (and words I vaguely know but tend to forget, or words I once knew and have re-discovered) so that I can come back and revise them.

The first word I have learned is:

Katoptron: the Greek word

Comments

[aeron_lanart]

I think everyone who writes should be aware of Sardoodledom, which I think is a great word.

Definition is:

Sardoodledom (noun) mechanically contrived plot structure and stereotyped or unrealistic characterization in drama : staginess, melodrama.

I will dig out some others for you, but a personal favourite is solifluction, which is a geological process...

[smithy161]

Oh, I know all about sardoodledom!

[donutsweeper]

Oh the sardoodledom!

[mad_jaks]

That sounds like a bit of gadgetry from Classic Who *g* I can hear Four saying it - it would be a darn sight easier than 'humonculous' (sp)

[smithy161]

It does, actually! And 'homunculus' is a very good word.

[aralias]

i was going to say "i learned a word today!" but i've forgotten it, so i guess i haven't. it means standing back to back and started with "add" but i can't remember what it was.

well done with the writing by the by. also, love your new user info banner :) pretty.

[aralias]

ah ha!

i was looking up addest, which was close. but not actually right. didn't remember this. just found it in my spell check. but anyway - i give you *drumroll*

Addorsed

\Ad*dorsed"\, a. [L. ad + dorsum, back: cf. F. adoss['e].] (Her.) Set or turned back to back.

[smithy161]

Ahha! Good word. I shall add it to my (currently very small) list.

[mad_jaks]

There's a certain symmetry to those first two... Are you planning on learning them in pairs?? *g*

[smithy161]

Not really... I found the first one, then aralias provided the second. They just happen to fit quite nicely!

dictionary.com delivers a word of the day to my inbox, but none of them have been terribly interesting so far.

[tatteredpsyche]

I had to go and look up homunculus, I'm so embarrassed.

[smithy161]

I only learned it recently, because I noticed a book titled 'Homunculus' in Waterstones and had to look it up.