Building a Vocabulary!

Hello! So I signed up for Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day e-mails.


And I love them! The words given are typically rarely used but so practical in everyday situations. That being said I decided to use my Blog as a way to use these words in sentences along with their definition. Feel free to correct my grammer or usage of the word as I am obviously NOT an english major haha.



Lets get to building my brain!

1. Eating sushi and then salsa in the same night was not very simpatico combination for my stomach.
1. Simpatico (adj)--agreeable, likeable; being on the same wavelength; congenial, sympathetic
2. My friend's brilliant cut ring had such a refulgence that one had to stare at the diamond for more than d a few seconds.
1. refulgence (n)--a radiant or resplendent quality or state: brilliance
3. To call someone a jerk during an argument is not a meed.
1. I strive to give God such a meed of praise for His gift and love to me!
2. meed (n)--a fitting return or recomense
4. The recently married Kate received a parvenu due to her marrage with Prince William, however she appears to have adjusted quite quickly.
1. parvenu (n)--one who has recently or suddenly risen to an unaccustomed position of wealth or power and has not yet gained the prestige, dignitiy, or manner associated with it.
5. While working on group projects, there maybe one person who feels they are the regnant leader of the group.
1. Regnant (adj)--exercising rule; reigning; having the cheif power; dominant; or of common or widespread occurence.
6. By responding to comments or questions pollicitally, your anodyne statement will not represent your true emotional and mental state regarding such matter.
1. Anodyne (adj)--serving to alleviate pain; not likely to offend or arouse tensions; innocuous
7. God desires to deracinate His children so that we might be fully in love with Him and show the world His love through us.
1. deracinate (v)--uproot; to remover or seperate from a native envrionment or culture; especially to remove the racial or ethnic characterisitcs or influences from culture or native envrionments.