I love words

One thing I like to do when I am reading a book is to write down the words that I don't know the meaning of so that I can look them up in the dictionary. Most of the time I can guess the meaning of the words from the rest of the sentence but I like to write the words down anyway so that I can look them up and learn more about them. Sometimes I write down words that I think I already know the meaning of but haven't heard or seen in awhile just for review.

I recently finished The Lost Art of Gratitude - by Alexander McCall Smith

Here is my list of words
1 .coruscate
2. leitmotiv
3. solipsistic
4. padantic
5. prevarication
6. parsimony
7. avuncular
8. argot
9. fastidiousness
10. tetchiness
11. dyspeptic
12. incipient
13. upbraid
14. bifurcated
15. durbar
16. usurer
17. emollient
18. hegemony
19. subversion
20. reticence
21. noumerial
22. quotidian
23. feigned
24. propinquity
25. subterfuge
26. papal
27. somnolence
28. anodyne
29 orchitis
30. mowdie
31. vituperative
32.aquiline
33. tawdry
34. banal


My favorite new word that I learned is:

7. avuncular- adj of or relating to an uncle.
suggestive of an uncle especially in kindliness or geniality

I just like that a word like this exists.

I think that I will use it for my word of the day.