Wondrous Words Wednesday – wk. 17

(99th blog post!!!)

Well, I’ve started Moby Dick now. Thank goodness it’s more interesting than War of the Worlds.

 

 

 

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Tantamount
(adj.)
Definition: equivalent in effect or value
Usage: “This must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.”
~Moby Dick

Larceny
(n.)
Definition: theft
Usage: “This must have seemed to him tantamount to larceny in the first degree.”
~Moby Dick

Abstemious
(adj.)
Definition: eating and drinking in moderation
Usage: “But for all this, the great negro was wonderfully abstemious, not to say dainty.”
~Moby Dick

Progenitors
(n.)
Definition: a direct ancestor
Usage: “For though their progenitors, the builders of Babel…”
~Moby Dick

Expatiate
(v.)
Definition: to speak or write at length
Usage: “Let us, in some measure, expatiate here.”
~Moby Dick

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