Wednesday, October 8, 2008

Wordy Wednesday

donnybrook: a brawl or dispute.
littoral: on a coastal or shore region.
volte-face: an about-face.
rubicund: inclining to redness; ruddy.
officious: meddlesome.
implacable: incapable of being pacified.
circumlocution: the use of many words to express an idea that might be expressed by few.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Alright, now I think you are just making stuff up. Those can't be real words.

Or, maybe they are and I just didn't know ANY of them!

Papa H said...

Oh, they're real words all right. I just get the previous weeks worth of the "Word of the Day" from Dictionary.com.

I'm not imaginative enough to make those things up.