Expostulations: Express strong disapproval or disagreement
Assimilation: Take in (information, ideas, or culture) and understand fully
Fecundity: Producing many new ideas
Intermittently: Occurring at irregular intervals; not continuous or steady
Anachronisms: A thing belonging or appropriate to a period other than that in which it exists, especially a thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned:
Petulance: The quality of being childishly sulky or bad-tempered
Indolent: Wanting to avoid activity or exertion; lazy
Ruinous: Disastrous or destructive
Ameliorating: Make (something bad or unsatisfactory) better
Imperious: Assuming power or authority without justification; arrogant and domineering
CITATIONS:
Oxford English Dictionary
Definitions of words:
ReplyDelete1. Rhododendron- Any of a genus of widely culticated shrubs and trees of the health family with alternative leaves and showy flowers.
2. Mauve- A pale bluish purple
3. Variegated- Varied in apperance or color; marked with patches or spots of different colors.
4. Verlect-
5. Decadent- Marked by decay or decline.
6. Spellbound- Held by or as if by spell.
7. Plight- To put or give in pledge: engage.
8. Stupor- A condition of greatly dulled or completely suspended sense or sensibility.
9. Spasmodic- Relating to or affected or characterized by spasm.
Sentences these words are in:
1. Rhododendon- I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden, surrounded by rhododendron bushes, and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossoms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hailstones. (Page 241) The time Machine was left deserted on the truf amoung the rhododendrons. (Page 246)
2. Mauve- I was on what seemed to be a little lawn in a garden, surrounded by rhododendon bushes, and I noticed that their mauve and purple blossms were dropping in a shower under the beating of the hailstones. (Page 241)
3. Variegated- They grew scattered, as if wild, amoung the variegated shrubs, but, as I say, I did not examine them closely at this time. (Page 246)
4. Verlect-
5. Decadent-
6. Spellbound-
7. Plight- He was in an amazing plight. (Page 233)
8. Stupor- The phycologist recovered from his stupor, and suddenly looked under the table. (Page 229)
9. Spasmodic- “That, “said a very young man, making spasmodic efforts to relight his cigar over the lamp… (Page 222)
“But before the balloons, save for spasmodic jumping and the inequalities of the surface, man had no freedom of verticle movement. (Page 224)