Comments on: Vocabulary Quiz

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By: Jordan

Jordan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 15:26:02 +0000

I knew about twenty. Oddly, “Chasuble” is a word I’ve looked up just recently, within the last two months.

By: katz

katz — Sun, 11 Jul 2010 22:15:13 +0000

I think thesaurus abuse is generally viewed as a no-no in novel writing, mostly because modern writers rarely have a formal enough voice to pull it off. You can create awful dissonance if your characters usually sound like frat boys and then occasionally throw in words like “plenipotentiary.” How do you know if your voice is too casual to use a word? If you had to look the word up in a thesaurus, it’s too casual.

By: Lesley

Lesley — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 02:04:02 +0000

I knew very few of those words! But my comment is kind of a side note – there’s a young girl at the Summer program I’m working at named Oriel. I had never heard that name before, and now I’ve seen the word, all in the course of a week. So crazy! I’m wondering where her parents would have encountered it to decide to name her that. It’s a really pretty and unique name to have though.

By: Deborah

Deborah — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 01:19:08 +0000

I only knew a few of the ones you didn’t. (Probably from doing Free Rice vocab quizzes.) I haven’t read the books but was he maybe trying to make his writing sound like it’t set in an ancient, middle ages-type culture?