On January 31st, I decided to post a “daily word” entry through Twitter during the month of February. I would choose a word, provide its part of speech, and include an example sentence from a full-view book from Google Books & link to the page that sentence is on.
Feb. 1st:
dolorous, adj. “Oswald heard the most dolorous shrieks, that penetrated the universal clamor.” http://bit.ly/b1tX0t #
Feb. 2nd:
odious, adj. “The charm of life is extreme. I am unacquainted with odious necessities. I object to nothing!” is.gd/7ygwZ #
Feb. 3rd:
fervid, adj. “I cannot forget with what fervid devotion / I worshipped the visions of verse and of fame.” http://is.gd/7CvjG #
Feb. 4th:
pentimenti, n. “The pentimenti have produced an effect of greater dynamism.” http://is.gd/7GQIg #
Feb. 5th:
assuage, tr.v. “Thirst was partially assuaged by water and ice held in the mouth and ejected.” http://is.gd/7MLLU #
Feb. 6th:
erudite, adj. “The Alexandrians were learned and erudite, but totally wanting in creative power.” http://is.gd/7PzoN #
Feb. 7th:
sordid, adj. “There is nothing sordid in money, except when the man is sordid or the purpose is sordid.” http://is.gd/7UtY5 #
Feb. 8th:
brindled, adj. “The brindled gnu is assuredly one of the most eccentric of nature’s creations, even in Africa.” is.gd/7WDwa #
Feb. 9th:
caudal, adj. “In the development of fishes, the caudal fin becomes more and more the seat of propulsion.” http://ow.ly/15KnQ #
Feb. 10th:
precipice, n. “He found the nest on a ledge of rock on the face of a most dangerous precipice.” http://ow.ly/169YV #
Feb. 11th:
subcutaneous, adj. “The general subcutaneous fat was well developed; there was no general edema.” http://bit.ly/cYZxi6 #
Feb. 12th:
ardor, n. “These thoughts supported my spirits, while I pursued my undertaking with unremitting ardor.” http://ow.ly/170B4 #
Feb. 13th:
festoon, n./tr.v. “The magic festoon heeds them as little as it heeded the snowflakes of winter.” http://is.gd/8jV9s #
Feb. 14th:
purview, n. “The religious endowments of this class fall within the purview of the Act and the Regulations.” ow.ly/17gIQ #
Feb. 15th:
veracity, n. “One should not speak of the veracity of anything that has occurred.” http://is.gd/8rWju #
Feb. 16th:
codify, tr.v. “Our answer to the dogma that we cannot codify laws is that we *have* done so.” http://is.gd/8ylmT #
Feb. 17th:
addulce, tr.v. “I praye you to addulce and mitigate the thinges, and lesse irritate them that ye can.” http://is.gd/8CsIR #
Feb. 18th:
detritus, n. “This broken-down tissue means increased detritus which must be removed.” http://is.gd/8EUIP #
Feb. 19th:
umbrage, n. “Are we sunk so low as to be tongue-tied, in a righteous cause, for fear of giving umbrage?” http://is.gd/8LI2X #
Feb. 20th:
abstruse, adj. “I cannot admit that my views are rightly to be called theoretical, still less abstruse.” http://is.gd/8PdV8 #
Feb. 21st:
martinet, n. “He had the true spirit of a martinet, and was very strict in matters of etiquette.” http://is.gd/8TdwJ #
Feb. 22nd:
ebullient, adj. “The accomplishments of the ebullient Dr. Harris were legion.” http://j.mp/cD2rXU #
Feb. 23rd:
intransigent, adj. “I was sometimes accused of representing my viewpoint in a manner too abrupt and intransigent.” is.gd/937Ch #
Feb. 24th:
capacious, adj. “The auricles are generally stated to be rather less capacious than the ventricles.” http://is.gd/98tmx #
Feb. 25th:
bromidic, adj. “I tried and tried to think of something amusing, and ended by being more bromidic than usual.” is.gd/9do65 #
Feb. 26th:
trepidation, n. “Jerome dressed for the dinner with care and trepidation.” http://is.gd/9i1uj #
Feb. 27th:
veracious, adj. “A discreet and shifty partisan, we admit; but a veracious and incorruptible historian!” http://is.gd/9m8DN #
Feb. 28th:
pernicious, adj. “O most pernicious woman! O villain, villain, smiling, damned villain!” http://is.gd/9oOTP #