Monday, April 09, 2012

Wondrous Words

1.Her days were spent in working and at night she cooked dinner, washed and ironed clothes, studied. She found that, in spite of her resolve never again to dream about some easier and more (remunerative) way of earning a living, and in spite of her determination to put all thought of singing out of her mind, she couldn't control a faint regret that (assailed) her when she least expected it.

Remunerative profitable

Assailed to overwhelm the mind


3.The children swarming past her added to the noise and theconfusion. There were everywhere -- rocking back and forth on the traffic (stanchions) in front of the post office, stealing rides on the backs of the crosstown buses...."bermudaonionwondrous-words

Stanchions  A stanchion is often referred to as a column; however it is a post. Stanchions can be used for several different purposes,






6 comments:

Libby Rodriguez said...

Hi Tea! These were good :) Where did you find them?

Tribute Books Mama said...

These are new words for me, thanks!for sharing.

http://tributebooksmama.blogspot.com/2012/04/wondrous-words-wednesday_11.html

Annie said...

Thanks for your words and the beautiful shot behind !

sim@chapter1-take1 said...

I knew remunerative but I had no idea that 'assail" meant to overwhelm the mind. Seems like that's a word I can use as I'm constantly assailed!

Margot said...

Some good words here today. The first sentence seemed so sad. What book is that from?

bermudaonion said...

I've heard remunerative and had a vague idea of what it meant but never could have used it.

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