Saturday, September 02, 2017
A Grandiloquent Parrot?
I've been reading the novel Flaubert's Parrot by Julian Barnes. It's full of unusual words that I'm compiling into a list. Here they are below, with parts of speech and meanings. I wonder if someone could teach a parrot to say these words?
indurate (verb: harden)
propinquity (noun: proximity, close kinship)
eulogium (noun: eulogy)
orchidaceous (adjective: like an orchid)
ipsophagy (noun [neologism]: the eating of bear meat)
execration (noun form of execrate: to curse, abhor, damn, denounce)
glabrous (adjective hairless)
crepuscular (adjective: dim, like twilight)
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vocabulary,
words
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