WordForTheDay

MrBook

Vocabulary Power: Successful Strategies for Word Mastery | Rose Christoforo-Mitchell

I‘ll have to start incorporating this one into my vernacular! 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

#WordForTheDay

Spencer_Labbe Love that! 5y

tournevis Except, the etymology of the word is the smell (chor) of pages (velli). That's the actual meaning. 5y

94 likes2 comments

MrBook

Origin | Dan Brown

#WordForTheDay: eschew. Good word or bad word? Either way, it's a weird one, lol.

Bookishlie Good word...spelled weird. 7y

Suelizbeth It‘s a great word. What‘s weird about it? 7y

ApoptyGina69 I eschew lying and reality television. 7y

See All 7 Comments

rwmg Perfectly good word 7y

SpeculativeFemale Generally good, though I prefer it in writing, not so much in conversation. 7y

MrBook @Suelizbeth Doesn't roll off the tongue well; when I hear it said, I want to say, "Gesundheit!" ? 7y

Suelizbeth @MrBook I can see, er, hear that. 🤧 7y

66 likes7 comments

MrBook

Shakespeare Insult Generator: Mix and Match More than 150,000 Insults in the Bard's Own Words | Barry Kraft

#WordForTheDay: There's 2 of 'em-rampallian and fustilarian. 😂👏🏻 #Shakespeare #LitsyHumor

aeeklund This is one of my favorite mugs that I own, largely for the inclusion of this particular insult. 7y

Rudis I HAVE THIS AND I LOVE IT! My favourite is "I do desire we might be better strangers." 7y

ephemeralwaltz I love this!!!! 7y

jmtrivera I have this one too! Love it! 7y

BookDame I want it 😍 7y

90 likes2 stack adds5 comments

MrBook

Vocabulary Power: Successful Strategies for Word Mastery | Rose Christoforo-Mitchell

I love the #GrandiloquentWordoftheDay 😊. Today's is appropriate for those summer cruising drives. 😎👌🏻 #WordForTheDay

Lreads I really need to put my glasses on! I thought it said asshat instead of as-yet. 😂 7y

MrBook @ReadsWithTea 😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 7y

WarpedSweetness I love when this page shows up on my FB. :-) 7y

Debiw781 @ReadsWithTea 😂😂😂😂 7y

aeeklund @ReadsWithTea You're thinking of CADiwomple. Travels purposefully toward asshat destination. 7y

84 likes1 stack add5 comments

MrBook

Word Detective: Searching for the Meaning of It All at the Oxford English Dictionary | John Simpson

#WordForTheDay: sotto voce. It means to be sung or spoken in a quiet voice so as not to be overheard. @SureAsMel 's book is jam-packed with versatile vocabulary--just the way I like it 😎👌🏻.

Lynnsoprano Important word in my vocabulary. When a student starts to push vocally, I will often have them sing the song sotto voce to get back on track with their technique before I let them sing with full voice. 7y

LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y

77 likes1 stack add2 comments

MrBook

A Matter of Words | Brian Paone, Chuck Mosley, Randy Blazak

#WordForTheDay: firmament. It's another term for the heavens or sky. Loving this read, @SureAsMel ! (And being a Shakespearean scholar back in my college days, I adore a superb lexical spread which includes such rare gems as "true-fix'd". ???).

MLRio So glad you're enjoying it! 7y

LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y

86 likes2 comments

MrBook

A Matter of Words | Brian Paone, Chuck Mosley, Randy Blazak

Today's word: duhkha. It's a Buddhist term meaning suffering or pain. #WordForTheDay

LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y

72 likes1 stack add1 comment

MrBook

The Forgetting Time: A Novel | Sharon Guskin

How does a daily Word for the Day post sound? I love coming across new terms, even if I can't figure out how to pronounce them 😂👏🏻. Today's Word is: bananaquit. It's a small songbird with a curved bill, typically with a white stripe over the eye, a sooty gray back, and yellow underparts. #WordForTheDay 😎👍🏻

Hooked_on_books It is the first word that jumped out at me from the text. ??I also initially read your last line as "yellow underpants." Interesting that they're all partial to the same color undergarments. ? 7y

tysephine @Hooked_on_books I saw yellow underpants too 😁 7y

jpmcwisemorgan Dictionary.com and at least one other dictionary site (I don't recall which one) offer pronunciation assistance. The voices sometimes sound funny but I've found them helpful. 7y

See All 9 Comments

RealBooks4ever What's a motmot?? 😜 7y

Librariana I just picture a banana having had ENOUGH and just quitting! Walking out on its job or something... VERY dramatic-like! 7y

Laura317 @librariana 😂😂😂 7y

BarbaraJean @Hooked_on_books @tysephine Me too!! 7y

SaraFair Does it wear banana pants? Lol. 7y

LitsyGoesPostal 😊👍🏻 7y

111 likes9 comments

MrBook

HEX | Thomas Olde Heuvelt

#WordForTheDay: moraine. It's a bit rocky. 😊👍🏻

Li_21 How are you liking it? I'm almost done 8y

LitsyGoesPostal ☺️👍🏻 8y

MrBook @Li_21 It's not great, but not bleh either, somewhere in-between at the moment 😊. 8y

Li_21 How far along are you? 8y

MrBook @Li_21 70% at the moment. The whipping just concluded. 8y

107 likes1 stack add5 comments

MrBook

The Witches: Salem, 1692 | Stacy Schiff

#WordForTheDay: caviled. Not something Saltonstall should have done with Massachusetts' powers-that-be in ye olde 1692. It wound up spelling his doom. I don't know if I feel bad for him, considering he had a hand in an accused witch's hanging. Maybe pity...maybe.

Laura317 I had to look that up. Good word to have in my vocabulary. 8y

Lea My ancestor is in that book! It was interesting. 8y

MrBook @Laura317 😎👍🏻🙌🏻! @Lea Oh wow! You have to tell me who now 😜, lol! 8y

98 likes2 stack adds3 comments

Welcome to Litsy!

Trending Hashtags

Trending Books