New (old) Words
Listed here are forgotten and newly acquired words discovered while reading
Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris by, Paul Gallico.
We are reading Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris in celebration of Paul Gallico's birthday: July 26, 1897. "If you like cats and have some, you get kittens; and if you like kittens and enjoy having them about, they grow up and you get more cats." Here's a snippet of the film version for Paul Gallico's book; Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris
MALAISE: a general feeling of discomfort, illness, or uneasiness whose exact cause is difficult to identify.
ReplyDeleteCATALEPSY: a medical condition characterized by a trance or seizure with a loss of sensation and consciousness accompanied by rigidity of the body.
ReplyDeleteBARMY: mad; crazy
ReplyDeleteIMPECUNIOUS: having little or no money.
ReplyDeleteSLATTERN: a dirty, untidy woman.
ReplyDeleteCICATRICE: the scar of a healed wound.
ReplyDeleteTOFF: a rich or upper-class person
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