Feizi's Word Blog

While I try to make the most out of what I have, I feel the urge to expand my vocabulary. This is a gathering of words I pick up here and there everyday. I am aware that some of the words are terribly simple for most people. But since my vocabulary is embarrassingly small, these words are acutally new to me. The definitions are from www.dictionary.com.

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I used to want to ruin my eyes so I can wear glasses to look smart. Now I am an Asian girl in California with a Chinese accent. People automatically assume I am smart, which is pretty cool.

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Insouciance (n-ss-ns, s-syäs)
n.
Blithe lack of concern; nonchalance.
Ignoble (g-nbl)
adj.
  1. Not noble in quality, character, or purpose; base or mean. See Synonyms at mean2.
  2. Not of the nobility; common.

Frailty(frlt)
n. pl. frail·ties
  1. The condition or quality of being frail.
  2. A fault, especially a moral weakness.
Contemptuous (kn-tmpch-s)
adj.
Manifesting or feeling contempt; scornful.
Anorexic (n-rksk)
adj.
  1. Suffering from or afflicted with anorexia nervosa.
  2. Anorectic.
  3. Characterized by severe economy of style and expression: “The book consists of nineteen rather anorexic stories, stripped of all but vestigial traces of emotion and often of plot” (Madison Smartt Bell).

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