We probably have a book with us at all times, weighing our bags down, but in the best way possible. Authors, copywriters, and content marketers use power words to spice up their content and compel audiences to take action. Five fascinating facts about the maze runner interesting. Power words are persuasive, descriptive words that trigger a positive or negative emotional response. Before our book page count calculator, you had to dig around through multiple sources to figure out how many words per page for your exact font size and then do the math. All you really need to know about grommets is that they are where you should put your aglets. It is a strange language with many unusual words, which many of us dont even know exist. In some ways, having a large vocabulary is more important than knowing the right. It is highly reactive and does not occur freely in nature. For me, the best book quotes of all time are the ones that are there for me when i need them, whether its the happiest day of my life or the hardest one. Interesting facts about jude barnes bible charts author. So, most of us are missing out on knowing, using and enjoying thousands of interesting words. A vocabulary list featuring 52 interesting words to know.
Aug 16, 2012 this board is all about mentor texts for developing the word knowledge of young students. Lickspittle the etymology is pretty selfexplanatory with this word is part of a grand pantheon of english words for sycophants. A field guide to the senses paperback april 30, 20. Some have funky spellings, tonguetwisting turns, a satisfying oohand some sound too hilarious to be true.
English language has a huge data of interesting words. I went to bed, and somehow this idea popped in my head about a bunch of teenagers living inside an unsolvable maze full of hideous creatures, in the future, in a dark, dystopian world. It is interesting how 12 greek words can create a heated debate with a lot of nonsense too. One of the great generalisations we can make about the modern world is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, an ugly world. I didnt know jalousied as an english word, but jaloezie from the french. Because of having written american wife, which is a fictional retelling of the life of laura bush, i had been invited to. A list of interesting words that rhyme to use in your raps or whatever tuna fish ludicrous doin this spaghetti serengeti ever ready incomplete sink and weep toilet seat back street track meet thats neat. Here are 6 books you need thatll help you build your english vocabulary. Lucky dog to have come into the life of the perfect human being for her. For younger students, reading aloud quality picture books that contain great vocab is one of the most effective ways to teach vocabulary. Friendly reminder for the purists all words were made up at some point.
It is interesting to work with because it boils at 320 degrees. The average english speaking knows around 12,000 25,000 words, yet the oxford english dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use. I remember listening to my grandfather, born in 1910, talk about hearing a couple brabbling about something. There are hundreds of interesting words that you have never even heard of before or you might. With these new words coming out, we will certainly have better ways to express our ideas and describe things. We have bootlicker, toadeater, asskisser, applepolisher, and fartcatcher wait, scratch that last one. The point is, we have many words for the sort of person who, you know, licks spit. I have not read lightning nor strange highways, but i did mooch them both recently. Add these rare and uncommon words to your vocabulary now. Sorry, i wont go for an english word but for two words i love in french, my mother tongue.
Through the paint could be seen a pale palimpsest of advertisements f. The key is to have fun with language and grow in knowledge without using it to make others feel excluded. They can make us feel scared, encouraged, aroused, angry, greedy, safe, or curious. A list of interesting words in english that are exquisitely twisty. It also explains how english is interrelated with other languages in the world and why so many of. We went on a hunt to find some of the most interesting words that arent used in everyday speech, but should be.
Many regard the book of hebrews as the 14th epistle of paul. I keep this book on my coffee table and open it daily to find new interesting words. Weve offered some interesting hunger games facts in an earlier post. The book of life is the brain of the school of life, a gathering of the best ideas around wisdom and emotional intelligence. A joy for all logophiles, the cabinet of linguistic curiosities presents a fascinating selection of the unusual and forgotten words that lurk in the. A jumbo list of unusual words and their meanings for logophiles. You might most frequently use to doublecheck the spelling or pronunciation of a word, or to find a synonym for a common term.
Unusual, obscure, and preposterous words 9780806517209. Okay, maybe not for all of us, but there are so many words in the english language that we dont know about because theyre not used often. Today, the word has become synonymous with amusing captioned pictures and videos online. It was rudyard kipling who said that words are the most powerful drug of mankind. With the same pageturning suspense as the husbands secret, new york times bestselling author j. A manuscript, typically of papyrus or parchment, that has been written on more than once, with the earlier writing incompletely erased and often legible. The book is the handbook for lovers for it contains an essay on what makes words beautiful so that the reader may go beyond the book in beautifying his or her speech. These are definitely words youll want to learn, remember, and use. The book is more beautiful than you can see on the pictures here, and with explanations that might actually help the understanding of some things, though honestly, using very simple words mostly makes complicates matters, while amusing people who knows the things explained already. Learning is a continuous process, no one knows it all, same with the english language, new words keep coming out every day, hence we need to be updating ourselves with the latest in the english language as they roll out. Unusual but useful words you might not know but should. So ive put together a list of favorite fun words that ill add to periodically. Comin right up see more ideas about book lovers, book quotes and i love books.
Unusual but useful words you might not know but should replace multiple words or communicate your idea with greater accuracy with one of these words. You send dozens of texts and spend hours talking every single day but you are reusing most of your words. Wordsso innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become, in the hands of one who knows how to combine them. Who it was that really wrote the epistle hebrews, god only knows. Reekos huge glossary of interesting and useful science. And some of us are familiar with this words lesscommon cousin, desideratum, which means something desired as essential the plural of this word is desiderata. Despite of english languages incredible variety of words and tenses, certain ideas just dont translate, like these interesting words that dont translate into english. These are some of my favorite not so known words from the dictionary as well as the book the gilded tongue. As the book follows the friends into love, marriage and adulthood, some realize their artistic ambitions while others adjust to less interesting lives. Dashner has discussed the books genesis, which dates back to november 2005. But sometimes you might want to learn a new and unfamiliar word one which you probably wont need in everyday conversation or writing, but which is fun, interesting, and unusual. Find some such words in the list provided in this penlighten article, and learn when to use them.
Weve brought together a list of some weird and wonderful words, from aa a kind of volcanic lava all the way. Its too much hassle and timeconsuming time you couldve spent refining and perfecting your book content. Rare and uncommon words that answer the question, what is this called. Also, there are some of these words listed here that older folks in my area used to say. What are some interesting words you have found in books. I just thought, oh, theres just something very interesting about this. Most of the books pinned here have been published in the last ten years, but a few are timeless classics. Ellisons no one knows is a rivetingskillfully plotted publishers weekly thriller that questions if the narrators husband really has returned from the deador if shes merely losing her mind. A jumbo list of unusual words and their meanings for. Now available in mass market with a brandnew ending. Carpenters longawaited first novel words the dog knows f. Sep 17, 2017 explore ilassitters board interesting words and definitions. But unlike more conventional drugs, certain words have no use once they cross the border. Nathaniel hawthorne a writer lives in awe of words for they can be cruel or kind, and they.
Believe it or not, the word meme was first used in 1976, as an abbreviation of the word mimeme in richard dawkins book the selfish gene in which he discussed how ideas and styles spread within a culture over time. This purple velvet hard cover book is a must read for anyone interested in language, humor and words you probably dont know. Some linguists suggest that if we dont have a word for a certain, it is almost impossible to. These interesting words will help you sound smarter in any conversation. Desiderium, and more obscure feeling words merriamwebster. Rodham author curtis sittenfeld on the inspiration. In each post, you can also find greek words related to the etymon, so you can learn them easily. Not that im obsessed with them, but i miss them when speaking spanish or.