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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