This week’s obscure English word is exedra. It’s the name of an arcade or portico with seats where people can talk, and was derived from Greek, via Latin, in the seventeenth century. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018 Advertisements
This week’s obscure English word is gnathonic. It’s a literary term that means ‘deceitfully flattering’, though to originate from the behaviour along these lines of Gnathō, a character in a comic play by the Roman playwright Terence. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018
This week’s obscure English word is abarognosis. It’s a noun, a medical term, and means a loss of ability to sense weight. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018
This week’s obscure English word is swash. It’s really good multi-purpose word. As a noun, swash means the splashing sound of moving water such as an incoming wave; or to walk in a pretentious manner, usually carrying a sword – hence the phrase ‘swash-buckling’. It is also an engineering term: a ‘swash plate’ is the … More The obscure word of the week is swash
This week’s obscure English word is hosel. It’s the name of the socket on a golf club into which the shaft is fitted. Your challenge? Write a sentence (or two) in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018
This week’s obscure English word is ravening. It means something that is rapacious or voracious, and was slightly mis-used by sci-fi pulp writer E. E. ‘Doc’ Smith in the context of ray guns, in which the rays they shot out were always ‘ravening’. Um… quite. (Personally I always thought ‘ray guns’ were a device that … More The obscure word of the week is ravening
This week’s obscure English word is bract. It’s a botanical term that refers to a particular type of leaf, often associated with a reproductive structure on a plant. Your challenge: write a sentence or two in the comments using this word. Copyright © Matthew Wright 2018
