Words of Week 8

Excruciating: Extremely painful; causing intense suffering; unbearably distressing; torturing
Evangelical: Marked by ardent or zealous enthusiasm for a cause
Amalgam: A mixture or combination
Animadversion: The act of criticizing.
Annihilate: To reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence
Ubiquitous: Existing or being everywhere, especially at the same time;
Suave: Charming, confident, and elegant.
Bauble: A showy and usually cheap ornament

The Case of Suspicious Blogviews

She looked at her screen with a bemused face. The stats she was seeing suggested various theories, but the one to weigh the strongest was that a Russian school teacher had found her blog, liked the Lexicon! page, and assigned a writing assignment the next day to her students using all the words from different weeks. It seemed plausible, because the separate posts haven't gotten only one view, but two views per page, maybe suggesting the teacher wanted them to work in pairs. 

Or maybe she thought, this new discoverer was a logophile like herself, in constant search of new words to use, to learn, to nurture. Maybe she was part of a little secret group of logophiles and she was happy because she had found a member on the other side of the world. Maybe, the blogger thought, I will shortly receive an email asking me to join the Unpublished Word Lovers Group...

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I ain't deducing to this.

Lots of purple scarves

-Belle

Words of Week 7

Allude: Mention without discussing at length
Egregious: Outrageously bad
Precocious: Having developed certain abilities or proclivities at an earlier age than usual.
Soliloquy: An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers
Dogmatic: Asserting opinions in a doctrinaire or arrogant manner; opinionated.
Languor: The state or feeling, often pleasant, of tiredness or inertia
Eclat: Brilliance of success, reputation, etc
Penultimate: Last but one in a series of things; second last