More words I didn’t know
May 9th, 2009 at 12:25 pm (Vocabulary)
In the process of reviewing some helpfully provided word lists, in preparation for the spelling bee, I encountered some new words (a nice side effect!). Here they are:
- cenacle: a group of people, as in a discussion or literary group (hey, like my book club!)
- ballottement: a palpatory technique for detecting or examining a floating object in the body
- gallimaufry: a confused jumble of things (can be applied to food, e.g., hash or ragout) — this one wasn’t from studying pre-bee, but from Tim post-bee. Awesome word!
I also came across a few words I probably would have misspelled, prior to this refresher. I’m recording them here in hopes this will help me remember them correctly in the future!
- barbiturate: for some reason, I didn’t know it had an r in it
- bellwether: not -weather
- bouillon: not boullion
- cantaloupe: not -ope
- cemetery: not -ary
- corollary: one r, two l’s
- correlate: two r’s, one l
- dispensable: not -ible
- guerrilla: two r’s, two l’s
- minuscule: not miniscule!
- mischievous: apparently mischievious is not a word!
- occasion: not occaison (I still don’t get why I always misspell this one. I guess it is my occasional heel)
- perseverance: not -ence
- sacrilegious: i and e inverted from their placement in “religious”, likely because the word doesn’t actually derive from “religious”, but instead stealing-of (legere) sacred things (sacri-).
- sergeant: not sa-