It doesn't matter if English is your first, second or third
language, we could all do with extending our vocabulary. With this in mind I
thought this week we could have a look at some “fancy” ways of saying everyday
things.
In this way I hope all our conversations will become more coruscating. To coruscate is to sparkle
and glitter, to shimmer and dazzle, like the sun shining on a gleaming pond.
When the adjective coruscating is used it means brilliant or striking in
content or style.
I hope that didn't make you cachinnate! To cachinnate is to laugh extremely loudly, possibly
making such a noise as to embarrass others in your company. It is to cackle or
guffaw. I suppose it could be compared to the modern expression” lol” (laugh
out loud).
Maybe you are having guests for dinner soon. If so you could
welcome them to your abode (your
house or home) and compliment them on their apparel
(the clothes they are wearing). You may also use the term to describe a “type
of clothing” such as sports apparel, or you could say something like the
apparel I wear Monday to Friday (smart working suits) is very different to the
apparel I wear on the weekends (sports/leisure suits).
When trying out new words it is important to be bold and not
pusillanimous. To be pusillanimous is
to be cowardly and lack courage; to be very timid and afraid of danger.
However, do not go to the other extreme and bloviate,
no-one likes a bloviator! Those who bloviate have developed the art of talking
for a long time and saying absolutely nothing. They can be seen as self
indulgent, empty pompous and often a little boastful. Not at all like any of
our readers.
Indeed, if I was accused of such a thing I would consider
myself a target of calumny. That is
to say the victim of an untrue statement that was said with the intention of
damaging my reputation. I would cry slander and be vitriolic (bitter and caustic) in my response!
Talking of insults, I can think of nothing worse than being labelled
as vapid. Apart from the fact that it
sounds horrible it means to be boring, bland and lifeless. A sad tired out
person with little personality!
That’s enough of the insults; let’s finish this blog in a
nice way and look at a rather peculiar sounding word: indubitably. This word, pronounced in-doo-bit-a-blee, means beyond
doubt, an absolute certainty. Indubitably this blog should help you to improve
your English vocabulary!
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