Each year for Christmas some discerning soul gives me a "Word A Day" calendar for the upcoming year. When I came upon a word that I particulary liked, I would tape the calendar page to the door of my overhead office bookshelf. Today, I cleared the 2011 Wall of Favourites. So for posterity, and in the spirit of sharing my love of words and increasing the volume of my vocabulary, I am sharing with you my Top Ten Words from 2011.
Solecism - a mistake in grammar or speech: something deviating from the proper, normal or accepted order: a breach of etiquette.
Overweening - arrogant or presumptuous: immoderate or exaggerated.
Flocculate - to aggregate or coalesce into small lumps or loose clusters.
Apodictic - expressing or of the nature of necessary truth or absolute certainty.
Quidnunc - a person who seeks to know all the latest news or gossip: busybody.
Espiegle - frolicsome or roguish.
Embonpoint - plumpness of person: stoutness.
Palaver - a long discussion usually between persons of different levels of culture: a conference or discussion: idle talk.
Bouquniste - a dealer in secondhand books.
Eclogue - a poem in which shepherds converse.
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