Wednesday Word

Sometimes a word I choose for (the occasional) Wednesday Word is one that shows up often in a book. Other times it’s a word that represents the essence of the book or some part of it. This week, I just picked a word that was unfamiliar to me, but still sounded kind of cool. Actually, the word in the form I found it in The Uplift War by David Brin wasn’t in my Webster’s New World Dictionary, so I give you the word that was as close as I could get.

 

The word in the novel: cinerescent

 

Close enough: cinereous (si nir’ ē əs) adj. 1. of or like ashes  2. the color of ashes; ash-gray

  

Do you ever feel like authors are just showing off?

 

 

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