Vocab. 1 for Wife No. 19

Posted by rjhmoore at 7:43 PM 1 comments

So I've noticed that Ann Eliza Young is very well educated. Definitely more so than me. She uses some words that I have never in my life heard of and her grammar and structure are absolutely beautiful. Not to mention her humor and sarcasm are so subtle yet so obvious that you have to think to yourself, "Hmm! How clever!" However, her expansive vocabulary is the most astonishing to me, so with that said, this is what I've decided: Every week, I will do a vocabulary blog while I'm reading this book. Sometimes I might not find any extraordinary words to wow anybody with and sometimes I may find zillions; depends. But for now, here's what I've got:

* Opprobrious - outrageously disgraceful or shameful
* Indefatigable - incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring
* Mobocracy - political control by a mob
* Incendiary - tending to arouse strife, sedition, inflammatory
* Buncombe - empty or insincere talk; claptrap
* Depredation - the act of preying upon or plundering; robbery; ravage
* Apostatize - to abandon one's religious faith, political party, principles, or a cause
* Castigation – the act of criticizing or reprimanding severely
* Proselyting - converting or attempting to convert people to different beliefs, religion, etc. (a proselyte is a convert)

These were the ones that caught my eye. I hope they are of interest to whoever reads this blog and be on the look out for future Wife No. 19 vocabulary!