Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme hosted by BermudaOnion at Bermudaonion’s Weblog where we get to share new words that we’ve encountered in our reading. Anyone can join in!
Now that I finished Midnight’s Children I thought I might go through a scarcity of ‘wondrous words’, but lo and behold Iam Fleming has taken me back to school with a few exotic words in his last Bond book ‘Octopussy and The Living Daylights’. Here’s a few of my favourites:
1. Accidie [ˈæksɪdɪ], acedia
n (Christian Religious Writings / Theology) spiritual sloth; apathy; indifference [in use C13 to C16 and revived C19: via Late Latin from Greek
akēdia, from a-1 + kēdos care]
Who knew you could learn so much from James Bond? I did know bouillabaise, but the others are new to me. Thanks so much for sharing your new words!
You’re welcome 🙂 Bouillabaise sounds good. If I go over to France I may just try it to see what it’s like.
oh how funny – I got to your second word and then was so fascinated that bouillabaise required (?) a specific fish that I looked it up. and then came back and saw your #4!
Words are cool.
lol. My bad. I thought that might happen. Should have posted them in order really.
Hi, I am new to your blog, from WWW. Terrific words! I knew the last one, but it is always fun to read the definition and learn more about any word. 🙂
Hi Suko, welcome. Glad you thought they were fun.
Bouillabaise is good! I can truly attest to that! I love foreign words, and you picked some good ones this week. Here is mine: http://www.southernfiberreads.com/2011/01/wondrous-words-wednesday-is-weekly-meme.html
I’m also familiar with bouillabaise from restaurants with French or New Orleans roots. The other words were new to me! Very cool that James Bond can increase vocabulary.