Beautiful Words

[AC Benus]

6 minutes ago, Wayne Gray said:

I think the writing challenge of using every word in this string is now officially dead.  😳. Hehe

Don't get all tetchy on me, man

 

[Former Member]

38 minutes ago, AC Benus said:

Here's the list of "Words to Use" I keep

Well that helps to explain why you use so many unusual words in your stories!  ;–)

[Wayne Gray]

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Pluviophile

 

There it is.  The exact, unambiguous word to describe my love of the rain.

Also, you're a brat @droughtquake!

Edited February 28, 2019 by Wayne Gray

[Former Member]

16 hours ago, Wayne Gray said:

Also, you're a brat @droughtquake!

I’m much more entertaining online than in person…  ;–)

[Former Member]

And today’s word of the day is obviously ‘Preceptive.’  ;–)

[Thorn Wilde]

On 2/28/2019 at 7:42 PM, droughtquake said:

And today’s word of the day is obviously ‘Preceptive.’  ;–)

Ah. I get it now.

[Reader1810]

The word is somnolent.

 

 adjective

som·no·lent | \ ˈsäm-nə-lənt  \

Definition of somnolent

        1: of a kind likely to induce sleepa 

             Eg. somnolent sermon

 

2a: inclined to or heavy with sleep : DROWSY

  b: SLEEPY sense 2

      Eg. somnolent rivers

 

 

From Walls Chapter 20, which is in Book 6 of @Carlos Hazday's CJ series. 

 

Quote

For being the city that never sleeps, New York was a somnolent town when the guys walked outside after breakfast. 

 

[Former Member]

38 minutes ago, Reader1810 said:

somnolent sermon

I think those two words should be permanently conjoined. Better somnolent than fury-inducing fire-and-brimstone old testament angry, vengeful god bigotry that contradicts their new testament god of love.

[Former Member]

I think this fits here for some reason…
;–)

[Reader1810]

19 minutes ago, droughtquake said:

I think this fits here for some reason…
;–)

For goodness sake, what a list!  

[Former Member]

1 minute ago, Reader1810 said:

For goodness sake, what a list!  

‘Too much of a good thing’?
;–)

[Reader1810]

11 hours ago, droughtquake said:

‘Too much of a good thing’?
;–)

Nope, I learned lots I never knew.