The 10 words of the week #18

Every week brings 10 rarely spoken words. Will you manage to work this week's 10 words into your conversations?

1. Transfiguration : Noun, feminine. A change. A transformation.

2. Lethargy : Noun, feminine. Torpor, inertia, immobility. Figuratively, the indifference of a person who is generally unaffected by the events in their life, as though nothing touches them.

3. Ardour : Noun, feminine. Heat, exaltation; intense enthusiasm.

4. Oxymoron : Noun, feminine. A figure of speech that combines two opposing or contradictory terms. For example: "deafening silence", "bittersweet", or "living death".

5. Brocard : Noun, masculine. Sense 1: A young male roe deer. Sense 2: A taunt, a jibe.

6. Glebe : Noun, feminine. A field or parcel of land used for sowing and harvesting agricultural produce.

7. Accointance : Noun, feminine. An acquaintance; a romantic liaison.

8. Aposiopesis : Noun, feminine. A figure of speech in which a sentence is deliberately broken off in mid-flow, leaving the listener to complete it. Example: "On my arrival at home, Pauline interrupted me, saying: — If you have no change…" (La Peau de chagrin by Balzac).

9. Pusillanimous : Adjective. Lacking courage. Timid; fearful of risk and responsibility.

10. Languard : Noun, masculine. A slanderer; one who speaks ill of others.

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