Tuesday, March 24, 2009

this has nothing to do with anything

but the word of the day on dictionary.com is thaumaturgy: the performing of miracles or magic.

just thought that was pretty awesome.

2 comments:

WestEnder said...

Lacertine: of or like a lizard (also Lacertillian).

Bdelloid: of or like a leech.

Scary: that I didn't look these up. I actually know these words. I was a vocab freak in high school. I have a book called The Joy of Lex. Now that I think about it I also have The Joy of More Lex.

k said...

i am owner of "the word lover's dictionary", "the highly selective dictionary for the extraordinarily literate", as well as the thesaurus version. i will have to check out the joy of lex.