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Daily Prompt: Sounds Right
This is clearly subjective, but some words really sound like the thing they describe (personal favorites: puffin; bulbous; fidgeting). Do you have an example of such a word (or alternatively, of a word that sounds like the exact opposite of what it refers to)? What do you think creates this effect?
One of my favorite word is eternity. It washes peace and a forever kind of sound on me. Then it also reminds me of one of my favorite perfume spray: Eternity, which is kind of fabulous.
Obstinate brings right in front of my eyes, those mulish characters who are set like rocks in their thoughts and ways. They won’t budge from their stance even when they know they are in the wrong. More like a donkey when you are trying to move it forward, and it doesn’t move.
Rotund has two meanings; round and fat…
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For me it has to be curmudgeon. Just sounds like exactly what it implies. Great post.
I had to google that. 🙂 I feel like I have been reading comics all this time. The new words keep coming 🙂
Well at least now you know what you AREN’T! Lol I read a lot of Dickens. There’s one in every book. Haha.