30 More Words I Learnt from Books

Another Blogtober post and another list. How many of the words that learnt from books lately do you know? Leave a score in the comments section!

1. Macabre – Causing a fear of death. Fairly sure I’ve used this in reviews a couple of times.
2. Cur – An aggressive dog
3. Echelon – a rank in an organisation
4. Virulent – A really harmful disease
5. Taran – A Gaelic name
6. Rigidly – A strict or exact way
7. Triolet – An eight line poem, I also think it means scooter in French
8. Fuselage – Main body of an aircraft
9. Squally – weather containing a lot of violent gusts of winds, called squalls
10. Contemptuous – Showing scorn
11. Insatiable – Impossible to satisfy
12. Chagrin – Distress at being humiliated
13. Siccing – Apparently it’s the past tense of being sick 🤷
14. Transom – A flat surface that’s part of a boat. I thought it was when you commit treason by ransoming something but alas.
15. Pliant – Easily bent
16. Proctor – A disciplinary person at US universities.
17. Balsam – An aromatic residue, often from trees
18. Capricious – Sudden unaccountable mood swings
19. Imbue – Inspire
20. Deigned – Doing something you consider beneath you
21. Ermine – a stout, which is meerkat type animal, with a white winter coat (of the natural kind)
22. Sconces – a candle holder attached to a wall with a bracket
23. Cadence – an inflection of the voice. I think we’ve had this one before on these lists 🤔
24. Sibilant – A hissing noise
25. Preened – Birds cleaning their feathers. What a really specific word.
26. Cloying – Disgust someone by being too kind and sweet
27. Rictus – A fixed grimace
28. Acquiescence – Accept something without protest. Those of you who’ve seen Pirates of the Caribbean will recognise this one.
29. Eschewed – Deliberately avoid
30. Basilica – A large hall. And here I was thinking it was the thing in the Chambers of Secrets.