This week’s obscure English word is echard. It’s a scientific term that refers to water in the soil that is not available for use by plants. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019 Advertisements

This week’s obscure English word is cabotage. It means to ship goods or sail between two points in the same country. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019

This week’s obscure English word is larboard. It’s another term for the port side of a ship, often used, as far as I can tell, in the US Midwest riverboats during the nineteenth century (another term was ‘mark twain’, a reference to the number of knots on a rope used to plumb the river for … More The obscure word of the week is larboard, Mr Clemens

This week’s obscure English word is zosteriform. It means something shaped like a girdle. Your challenge: make up a sentence using this word, in the comments. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019

This week’s obscure English word is languescent. It means ‘to become languid’ – in effect, relaxed and without energy. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019

This week’s obscure English word is sabulous. It’s a description of a plant that grows in sandy places. Ones that do could be said to be absolutely sabulous. Your challenge: make up a sentence using this word, in the comments. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019

This week’s obscure English word is choanoid. It’s an adjective meaning ‘funnel shaped’. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2019