Vocabulary Time! // 2
Time to challenge your brain & widen your mental dictionary. Due to the overwhelmingly positive response to my premier Vocabulary Time! post, I decided to definitely keep the series going. You can always find a beauty review or a cool style post, but there's not as much content available for pursuing a greater education. Regardless if English is your mother tongue, you can still learn. Let's do it together!
When I watch television & movies I like to utilize the closed captioning; it helps me to be aware of every word. It also gives me the opportunity to see & hear words in context. I like to write the words down so I can look them up later. These are three words that piqued my interest. Here's the second round of Vocabulary Time! You don't have to like it but you'll learn from it.
1. Pernicious
- adjective ▲ per·ni·cious ▲ per-nish-uh s
- Definition: causing great harm, injury, or hurt, especially in a gradual or subtle way
- Example: Alvin spread pernicious lies about his coworkers to ruin their reputation.
2. Fracas
- noun ▲ fra·cas ▲ frey-kuh s
- Definition: a noisy argument, fight, or uproar
- Example: The police were called after the drunk girls got into a fracas at the bar.
3. Louche
- adjective ▲ loosh ▲ loosh
- Definition: dubious; questionable; not reputable
- Example: Although she didn't say it out loud, Madison's grandmother thought the house was decorated in a louche & bohemian way.
Just like last time, if you want to learn more about the word & get more in depth with the definitions, please click the corresponding link. Here's hoping we can learn something new every day. Did you know any of these words prior to this mini vocab session? I challenge you to leave a comment utilizing one of these vocabulary words. You can include more words for extra credit. :]
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I knew pernicious but wouldn't have guessed that the others were English, to be honest.
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Ha, I love this! English is my second language so I can definitely use some new vocabulary to spice things up! Thank You for sharing!
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That's awesome Paulina. Hope you can use the new words. :]
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I LOVE the idea of this series, Carmen! I love to read and write, so I really appreciate these kind of blog posts. There were some words you included that I wasn't familiar with and learned, thank you!
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So happy you like it & can learn from it, Jalisa. Any word you liked in particular? :]
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Especially while reading. :]
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I like the way fracas rolls off the tongue. :]
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I love this idea - it's a great way to change things up from reading beauty or style posts! I do the same thing, when I see words in writing, it's a lot easier for me to remember. It drives me nuts when my teachers lecture without presentations or writing on the board, I can't figure out how certain words are spelled!
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You're right, Angelina. Fracas does seem to be somewhat of an onomatopoeia. :]
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Pernicious is a good word to hopefully you can utilize it. :]
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For some odd reason, I found all these words to be terribly entertaining. They're hilarious when rolled about on the tongue! The only one I can say with a straight face is probably "louche", but even then, I snicker, ha!
ReplyDelete"Pernicious" has always lingered round my vocab bank but I never actually got around to using the word because it doesn't seem that threatening, if you know what I mean? As in "He spread poisonous lies" vs "He spread pernicious lies." Fluff, but an intriguing word all the same!
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I think pernicious is just another adjective & can be used interchangeably. Beautiful, gorgeous, breathtaking can all be used to describe an outfit, but at least it allows you to use different words. :]
DeleteLouche is also used in Dutch and it means the same (probably has the same origin as the English word, but no idea what that would be), so I already used it pretty often. The other two words are new, so I'm happy you've just expanded my vocabulary; thanks :-)
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That's so cool that louche already used in Dutch. Thank you for stopping by Izzy; I just came back from the Netherlands. :]
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This is such an amazing idea for a post girl! I love learning new words. I knew pernicious and fracas but I've never heard louche before - I'm definitely going to try to use it in a conversation now
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DeleteOooh I love this series! English isn't my native tongue (it's Greek) but I adore this language! :) Fracas I love that one! ;)
ReplyDeleteI already new fracas but not pernicious or louche. Thanks for the education, Carmen. :)
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