A few Wortschatz

Wortschatz, German for vocabulary (literally word treasures), accurately describes all the new words I've been learning! How erudite of me.


The imperious preacher exhorted the apostate to revert, but the apostate remained intransigent.

1. apostasy
   
2. exhort
   
3. hortatory
   
4. imperious
5. intransigent

I feel so verbally well endowed...

New Vocab

1. mercurial


2. truculence


3. peremptory


4. dilettantish


5. exegesis

Hitler was truculent and imperious in conquest. Up to a certain point, his peremptory nature, while scaring the mercurial former Allies, elicited only dilettantish reference to collective security.

**Most of these words and ideas are courtesy of Henry Kissinger's Diplomacy.

The Graduate Record Exam: Vocabulary

Casey and I have begun studying for the GRE. We go to our local Barnes & Noble and use one of their Princeton Review study guides. Don't tell B&N! I feel so very incompetent. My vocabulary is especially ignominious. (YAY! New word!) For those of you who are gifted, or whose parents have cultivated in you a grand vocabulary (like my boyfriend), please wipe that supercilious look from your face (YAY! Another!) Below is the first list of words I have compiled. I have decided to divide words into groups based on similar definitions, and maybe sometimes antonyms. The first group of words all have to do with lacking energy or weakness. Some of them I was familiar with. The other words I have just never seen and or used.

1. listless

2. languid

3. lassitude

4. indolent

5. wan

6. supine

Alas, I feel so supine after learning all these new words... the lassitude of a summer afternoon nap is calling...