I have decided to post these because I am sort of a wordy kind of person, and I was going through my computer files and came across my word lists from last year. Those of you who were in our SAT prep class know what I mean. Every two weeks we had to submit a list of twenty words, with setences and definitions, that we found in a book from our list of classics. These are some of my favorites.

1-Verisimilitude: The appearance of being true.

2- Cosh: a short club, or the act of hitting with a short club (doesn’t it sound innocent if you cosh your little brother, rather than hit him with a baseball bat?) Another great word with the same meaning is truncheon.

3- Grappa: a sort of Italian brandy. 

4- Frowsy: junky, messy, or shabby. Amaze your parents by using a vocabulary word to describe your room.

 And my personal favorite:

5-  Farinaceous: having a grainy or mealy texture. For some reason this one stuck in my head. It comes from Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, one of my favorite books.