I make my residing with phrases. I’m a 4x NYT bestselling creator. I learn voraciously. I personal an unbiased bookshop and choose books for a number of e-book golf equipment, however I nonetheless discover myself trying up new phrases or ideas each time I learn new books. That is really what I like as a result of I need to increase my thoughts and study extra, however I learn a e-book popping out in April that I actually beloved however which made me run for the dictionary so many occasions I began to query my very own intelligence. I stored a listing of some of the phrases or phrases I needed to lookup as a result of I must know if I’m alone in not figuring out them.
Semaphoric
Bolshy
Lushington
Voight-Kampff
Viz
Mithered
Flense
Sublimate
Rhotic
Épée
Corpse (as a verb)
Quotidian
Exegesis
Sloe
Edenic
Gelid
What number of do you know? When you knew all 16 you win.
PS. Listed here are the definitions in case you’re clueless like me: Visible signaling, tough or argumentative, a drunk, a check run by Blade Runners to see if somebody was an android, to wit, fussing, slicing fats off a carcass, to vary type however not essence, dialect wherein “r” is pronounced earlier than a consonant, a sword, being unable to regulate laughter whereas appearing as a lifeless physique, widespread, important interpretation of scripture, blackthorn fruit, regarding the Backyard of Eden, extraordinarily chilly.
