Word of the Week

Number 48 on the list is to learn a new word every week.

I added this to the list mainly because every time I read a book and I come across a word I don't know, I think to myself I will go and look this up in the dictionary. And then I never do. So this is to make sure that I always go and look up the word.

There were a couple of words this week, one of which I pretended to have known for about a decade and never really did:

    Bildungsroman - a novel dealing with one person's early life and development.

So there you go

But word of the week goes to (drum roll please)

Parabola

An open plane curve formed by the intersection of a cone with a plane parallel to its side, resembling the path of a projectile under the action of gravity.

 

Yeah, I have no idea either.