good word!

on Tuesday, December 21, 2010
words i discovered recently, really like, and want to add to my personal vernacular:

pulchritudinous
[pulh-kri-tood-n-uhs] -adjective
physically beautiful; comely

chintzy
[chint-see] -adjective
1. of, like, or decorated with chintz
2. cheap, inferior, or gaudy
3. stingy; tacky; miserly

uncouth
[uhn-kooth] -adjective
1. awkward, clumsy, or unmannerly; off-color
2. strange and ungraceful in appearance or form
3. unusual or strange

quixotic
[kwick-sot-ik] -adjective
1. foolishly impractical especially in the pursuit of ideals; marked by rash lofty romantic ideas or chivalrous action
2. impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.

that last one maybe sounds a little too much like my personality.

book club book for this month is jane austen's "mansfield park." i am on page 3, but have already found a gem of collection of words:

"but there certainly ware not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are women to deserve them."

amen, jane.

i like words.

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