It's human nature to seek patterns: some find elephants in the shape of clouds, the face of Jesus in a piece of burnt tortilla, and spelling coincidences in the names of Kennedy and Lincoln assassins.
There's a pattern, too, in this week's words, even if it's not very apparent. Can you find it? If you think you know the answer, email it to wordsATwordsmith.org (replace AT with @). One entry per person, please. The first person to identify it correctly wins an autographed copy of the book "Another Word A Day" by yours truly. Results will be announced in AWADmail this weekend. scintillescent (sint-uh-LES-uhnt) adjective Sparkling or twinkling. [From Latin scintillare (to sparkle), from scintilla (spark).] -Anu Garg (gargATwordsmith.org) "She tried to discern his thoughts as they stood in the scintillescent moonlight, the dark forest pressing in on them." Chelsea Quinn Yarbro; A Feast In Exile; Tor Books; 2002. Sponsors' Messages: Subscribe to http://delanceyplace.com -- a carefully selected non-fiction book excerpt free to your email each day. It's the thinking person's daily quote. Always find the right word with the Visual Thesaurus. Wordsmith readers save 10%. Try it free! http://www.visualthesaurus.com/?code=qt4&ad=aw ............................................................................ The further one grows spiritually, the more and more people one loves and the fewer and fewer people one likes. -Gale D. Webbe, clergyman and author (1909-2000) Discuss this week's words on our bulletin board: http://wordsmith.org/board Remove, change address, gift subs: http://wordsmith.org/awad/subscriber.html Pronunciation: http://wordsmith.org/words/scintillescent.wav http://wordsmith.org/words/scintillescent.ram Permalink: http://wordsmith.org/words/scintillescent.html This message was sent to "[email protected]".
