Bookish Thursday - Imagining Word Meanings
I was reading Scavenging Beauty by Angelica Glass last week. It is a memoir of her seven years of walking all the roads and streets in her county in California. For her it was a form of not only exercise, but therapy. Right off I came across the word 'quaquaversal'. Normally, if I find a word I am not familiar with in something I am reading, I can gather enough from the context of the sentence or paragraph to get the meaning of the word. But this word, for some reason stopped me. I hopped out of bed (I was reading before going to sleep) and grabbed a notebook and pencil and wrote it down. Quaquaversal - Sloping or spreading out in all directions of the compass. So it is like a domed mountain or a city center where it spreads out in all directions. It can also be used to talk about someone running madly around in all directions, like a chicken with their head cut off. Needless to say, it is not a word which will pop up in conversation with me. Another...
