Vocabulary Words

Vocabulary Words To Work On.
(Total reading time 2 minutes)

Over the last few days I read book no 25 on my goal towards 40. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens brought my streak of novellas to an end. Of course I had heard the story before but this is the fist time I actually read it straight  from the source. I enjoyed but at times got a bit lost in the dialect of the time. More importantly it made me realize my vocabulary sucks. So here are few words I came across and wrote down for further exploration. Enjoy: Words with friends any one?

Vocabulary Words:

• Prodigiously – remarkably great in size.
• Bade – This past tense of bid.
• Procuring – obtain or get with care.
• Penance – voluntary self punishment.
• Faltered – to lose strength and or momentum.
• Feeble – lacking physical strength.
• Plume – along feather worn for ornament. (Think peter pans hat)
• Pitch-and-toss – a gambling game were some one tries to throw a coin as close as possible to a mark. (Personal note: I did this in junior high school for quarters)
• Ruddy – having a red healthy color.
• Petrification – a state of extreme fear that renders a person still.
• Furrows – narrow trench in the grown.
• Filberts – a type of nut.
• Swoon – faint and overcome with emotion.
• Bristling – short stiff hair.
• Gruel – similar to oatmeal.
• Incredulous – unwilling or un able to believe something.
• Infernal – a characteristic  of hell.
• Breeches – short pants.

Hope you learned something from this long list of scrabble words.

Thats all I have to say.

Peter Weis