Last night, I sat in bed reading...Something I haven't done in years. I had forgotten how much I love reading a good book right before bed. I know my tendencies to let 10 turn into 11, which always seems to slip into 12...and then I wake up exhausted. So, I always give myself a reading curfew. "You can read until 10:23, but no later!" Then, like the morning's snooze button, I give myself "just a few more minutes." The few more minutes turned into over an hour last night!
As I sat in bed, I had my blue pen ready. Any word I didn't immediately recognize (or couldn't figure even with an educated guess) got a blue underline. No electronic dictionaries in bed. I had two or three words underlined by the time I went to bed. However, my word of the day comes from my bathroom reading this afternoon, not bed reading. so....without further ado, here is THE WORD OF THE DAY....
ELDRITCH
1. Strange or unearthly; eerie
"It looked marvellously pure, marvellously full of its own gray and eldritch charm..."
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Wow. Never heard that word, and couldn't pick up the "eerie" clue from context. Thanks for the mental stim.
I do a virtual co-op for history and lit; one of the students has the last name Eldridge. Spooky,huh? )_
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