 Short Stories: October 02, 2024 Issue [#12769] |
This week: Words You Can Use! Edited by: Lilli 🧿 ☕  
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"Be mindful when it comes to your words. A string of some that don't mean much to you, may stick with someone else for a lifetime."
~ Rachel Wolchin
"Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can be only forgiven, not forgotten."
~ Unknown
"Words are free. It's how you use them that may cost you."
~ Kushand Wizdom
"Raise your words, not your voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder."
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There are so many interesting words in the English language, but we tend to use the same ones over and over again when we're having a conversation or writing. If you want to change up your vocab a little, try including some of the words below.
Absquatulate — to leave somewhere abruptly (verb)
 "When the back porch light turned on, the sneaky raccoons absquatulated."
Alfresco — taking place or located in the open air (adverb)
"Commoners slept alfresco, under statues of past Olympic champions."
Amok — an episode of sudden mass assault against people or objects (noun)
"The two dogs ran amok in a school playground."
Bafflegab — confusing or generally unintelligible jargon (noun)
"I kept asking the telemarketer what the final cost of the “special offer” was, and all I got was more bafflegab about deferred payments, option to cancel at any point, etc."
Calamity — a great misfortune or disaster (noun)
"An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity; a pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity."
Demitasse — a small cup for serving strong black coffee after dinner (noun)
"I quickly drank the luxurious potion in my demitasse".
Elixir — a sweetened, aromatic solution of alcohol and water containing, or used as a vehicle for, medicinal substances (noun)
"No magical elixir was needed; I was completely under the spell of these people."
Finagle — to cheat a person (verb)
"A con man finagled my neighbor out of four hundred dollars."
Glabella — the flat area of bone between the eyebrows (noun)
"The patient's response is checked by pressing over the glabella and looking for facial expression".
Hooligan — a ruffian or hoodlum (noun)
"Mama has a clear sense of right and wrong, tasteful and tacky, raised right and hooligan."
Jabberwocky — a playful imitation of language consisting of invented, meaningless words (noun)
"Amanda learned to ignore her critics, dismissing their attacks as the jabberwocky of minds with nothing more important to think of about."
Kismet — destiny (noun)
"Time was running out once again, and his family's kismet rested on him."
Mulligatawny — a curry-flavored soup of East Indian origin, made with chicken or meat stock (noun)
"In the interval between the mulligatawny soup and the roast beef I retired to the telephone again and this time I found Malcolm at home."
Pother — commotion (noun)
"She is always in a pother over the state of her garden".
Vagabond — wandering from place to place without any settled home (adjective)
"He could not survive on his own, a vagabond dog on the run."
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