Wondrous Words Wednesday!

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The following word comes from In the Woods by Tana French


"Few people would have considered her beautiful, but my tastes have always leaned towards bespoke rather than brand name, and I took far more pleasure in looking at her than at any of the busty blond clones whom magazines, insultingly, tell me I should desire."


1. Bespoke
: bespoken, custom-made; tailor-made, made-to-order (commonly used to refer to clothes)




" It was one of the things that first fascinated me about the job - that and the private, functional, elliptical shorthand: latents, trace, Forensics."


2. Elliptical
: (of speech or writing) expressed with extreme or excessive economy; relieved of irrelevant matter




' "So after the tea break Mark told me and Mel to go up there and mattock it back while the others did the drainage ditch." '


3. Mattock
: an instrument for loosening the soil in digging, shaped like a pickax, but having one end broad instead of pointed.




" But those lost, liminal pockets of time are usually solitary; there is something about the idea of a shared one that makes me think of twins, reaching out slow, blond hands in a gravity-free and wordless space.. "


4. Liminal
: (from the Latin word līmen, meaning "a threshold") is a psychological, neurological, or metaphysical subjective state, conscious or unconscious, of being on the "threshold" of or between two different existential planes (from Wikipedia)