Word of the Week: Alacrity and Weekly 100 Words

          He grinned at her. "I have no doubt you will prove a worthy adversary--though I do not like to use that term to describe you, Miss Haswell. It will be a friendly competition, I hope. I for one believe there are plenty of patients for everybody, what with Honeystreet's labourers and canal traffic, and Alton so close by."

Here are my 100 words from The Apothecary's Daughter by Julie Klassen p192:

          "You are surprisingly far and generous, sir."
          He shrugged. "I have no longing for great wealth. For great adventure, yes, to travel widely and love deeply--those things I value more than profits. Though certainly one needs enough of those to finance the...."

This meme is hosted by Ruthi at Ruthi Reads!  The object is simple:  share exactly 100 words from the book you are currently reading, and no spoilers!  Be sure to include your book's title, author, and page number in your post.  Head over to Ruthi's site and add your link to your book!  Happy Reading!

Work of the Week: Pusillanimous and Weekly 100 Words

And, I'm adding a new meme to my Word of the Week, it's called Weekly One-hundred Words or WOW. I first read of this at Southern Fiber Reads and thought it sounded so cool!

This meme is hosted by Ruthi at Ruthi Reads!  The object is simple:  share exactly 100 words from the book you are currently reading, and no spoilers!  Be sure to include your book's title, author, and page number in your post.  Head over to Ruthi's site and add your link to your book!  Happy Reading!

Here are my 100 words from Cinderella Ate My Daughter by Peggy Orenstein p58:

"...I realized that the journalists who were most outraged by Pop were the ones who would've been the daughters--metaphorically or literally--of 1970s feminists, girls who had been stuffed into endless pairs of shapeless overalls (which in itself would scar a person for life). Their moms had doubtless been well meaning, but their ideals were misguided. And boring. And they backfired: there was no way all those Carries, Terris, Randis, and Jos were going to inflict that neutered femininity on their daughters. When they had children, then--which coincided with marketer's discovery of the power of microsegmentation by age and sex--they were..."

Enjoy your day!!!

Work of the Week: Unctuous

I sincerely hope you did not date this kind of person on Valentine's Day!

Work of the Week: Terpsichorean

Work of the Week: Graupel

I can't sleep because I have this horrible cough that not even Nyquil will suppress and I figured with the weather being what it is (not that I'm complaining, no school! woot.) we could use a little precipation word.

Word of the Week: Apogee

I find that I enjoy this word because of its opposite nadir...and it's fun to make the students think by using apogee and nadir instead of highest point and lowest point...try it some time...

Word of the Week: Zephyr

Only one word this week. The form below is modeled after the vocab sheets we have the students do. Every Tuesday I'll just have one of these forms with a word that I like. The definition will be from http://www.dictionary.com/ and/or Word Wealth, my high school vocabulary book (I stole it!). Enjoy the word, I just love words and this word is in my top 5 favorite words.

Word of the Week: P-words

I've always had a fascination with (a propensity for, if you will) P-words. P-words have such power. You'd be amazed there really is a P-word for every situation of life. If you're world is exactly the way you want it, why not say, "Life has rewarded me with propitious situations". Students or your man friend annoying you?  Maybe you're feeling a little perturbed or piqued. In love with someone? It could be just a brief girlish pash or it could be passion--the real deal. Here's a list of some of my favorites: pensive dreamily or wistfully thoughtful, pompous characterized by pomp, stately splendor, or magnificence, pontificating to express opinions or judgments in a dogmatic way, pedantic characterized by a narrow, often ostentatious concern for book learning and formal rules, profligacy recklessly wasteful; wildly extravagant, prodigious extraordinary in size, amount, extent, degree, force. Try using a P-word in place of prosaic words, it really is quite pleasing.

Side Note: I took this from a post I made on 3.25.2008...I'd forgotten it even existed. From now on it will be only one word a week, but I couldn't help it...I prefer p-words so! Sigh!