Recently, the books I have been reading contain few, if any, unknown words. This past week, however, I started a new book titled "The Devil in the White City," by Erik Larson, which details the building and goings on of the World's Fair in Chicago at the brink of the 20th century. Very fascinating history. The books is incredibly well written, and contains a plethora of new vocabulary words. Today, I stumbled across this one:
Somnambulistic: affected by sleepwalking.
I love reading books that make me think (and use a dictionary)!
1 comment:
Can't wait to use it. Cool word! I hope I don't have occasion to act it out, but you never know.
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