New (Old) Words
Listed here are forgotten and newly acquired words discovered while reading
Love in the Time of Cholera by, Gabriel García Márquez
We are reading Love in the Time of Cholera & One Hundred Years of Solitude in celebration of Gabriel García Márquez's birthday: March 6, 1927 “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” - Gabo
LANDAU: a horse-drawn four-wheeled enclosed carriage with a removable front cover and a back cover that can be raised and lowered.
ReplyDeleteCLANDESTINE: kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.
ReplyDeletePEREGRINATION: a journey, especially a long or meandering one
ReplyDeleteAPERITIF: an alcoholic drink taken before a meal to stimulate the appetite.
ReplyDeleteGERONTOPHOBIA: the fear of age-related self-degeneration (similar to Gerascophobia), or a hatred or fear of the elderly due to memento mori.
ReplyDeleteTROGLODYTE: a person who is regarded as being deliberately ignorant or old-fashioned.
ReplyDeleteROTOGRAVURE: a printing system using a rotary press with intaglio cylinders, typically running at high speed and used for long print
ReplyDeletePROSTRATION: the action of lying stretched out on the ground.
ReplyDeleteCANTICLE: a hymn or chant, typically with a biblical text, forming a regular part of a church service.
ReplyDeleteBREVIARY: a book containing the service for each day, to be recited by those in orders in the Roman Catholic Church.
ReplyDeleteSANGFROID: composure or coolness, sometimes excessive, as shown in danger or under trying circumstances.
ReplyDeleteCOSMOGONY: the branch of science that deals with the origin of the universe, especially the solar system.
ReplyDeleteMADAPOLLAM: is a soft cotton fabric manufactured from fine yarns with a dense pick laid out in linen weave.
ReplyDeletePLEBEIAN: of or belonging to the commoners of ancient Rome
ReplyDeleteCURLEW: a large wading bird of the sandpiper family, with a long down-curved bill, brown streaked plumage, and frequently a distinctive ascending two-note call.
ReplyDeleteASEPSIS: the exclusion of bacteria and other microorganisms, typically during surgery.
ReplyDeletePARSIMONIOUS: unwilling to spend money or use resources; stingy or frugal.
ReplyDeleteCORPULENT: (of a person) fat.
ReplyDeleteMARASMS: medicine
ReplyDeleteINELUCTABLE: unable to be resisted or avoided; inescapable.
ReplyDeleteBLENNORRHAGIA: noun In pathology, a discharge of mucus; specifically, gonorrhea.
ReplyDeleteLACUSTRINE: relating to or associated with lakes.
ReplyDeleteCOUP DE GRACE: a final blow or shot given to kill a wounded person or animal.
ReplyDeletePARVENUE: a person of obscure origin who has gained wealth, influence, or celebrity.
ReplyDeleteMENDICANCY: depending on alms for a living; practicing begging
ReplyDeleteCREPUSCULAR: of or resembling twilight; dim.
ReplyDeleteLODESTONE: something that strongly attracts.
ReplyDeleteACQUIESCENT: ready to accept something without protest, or to do what someone else wants.
ReplyDeleteCLANDESTINE: kept secret or done secretively, especially because illicit.
ReplyDeleteOSTENTATION: pretentious and vulgar display, especially of wealth and luxury, intended to impress or attract notice
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