Top Ten Tuesday is a meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, featuring a different top 10 theme each week. This week’s topic is Favorite Words. That felt a little broad to me, so I thought I’d try to come up with a list of words I learned, discovered, or just enjoyed through my reading.
My top 10 are:
- Absquatulation: Departing in a hurry; absconding (encountered in the Outlander series)
- Castrametation: the making or laying out of a military camp (also from the Outlander series)
- Ligneous: made, consisting of, or resembling wood; woody (from Tomorrow, and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin)
- Ludic: showing spontaneous and undirected playfulness (also from T&T&T)
- Seneshal: the steward or major-domo of a medieval great house (from the October Daye series by Seanan McGuire)
- Symbiont: an organism living in symbiosis with another. (from the Parasitology series by Mira Grant and from Fledgling by Octavia Butler)
- Taradiddle ~ A fib, or falsity (from the Finishing School series by Gail Carriger)
- Widdershins: in a direction contrary to the sun’s course, considered as unlucky; counterclockwise. (from Discworld books by Terry Pratchett)
- Oubliette: a secret dungeon with access only through a trapdoor in its ceiling. (from A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness)
- Barouche-landau: A barouche-landau was an expensive four-wheeled carriage drawn by two horses, with two collapsible hoods – one for the front-facing passengers and one for the rear-facing passengers. (from Emma by Jane Austen)
Do you have any favorite words that you’ve picked up from your reading?
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