THIS WEEK'S WORD - Match the meanings to the words!

Hello again, and thanks so much for dropping by SMART GIRLS READ ROMANCE. It's time for This Week's Word but today we're going to try something new.

I've listed the meanings to nine words, and below the meanings, I listed nine words. See if you can match the meanings to the words. WARNING: Only for the serious wordsmiths, Mensa members (lol) or those who just want to broaden their vocabulary. .

I have to admit, most of the words I'd never heard of but I'm so glad I learned their meanings. So, be a good sport and give it a go. Just think how smart you'll be when you write or read about "hongi".

(Correct answers at the end of my post). In the comment section below, let us know how you did.

Hope you enjoyed this week's visit! See you next time.

DEFINITIONS (Meanings. Match to the words below) 

transient or fleeting
to try to deceive someone by flattering them or telling them lies
in ancient times, to sound a battle signal
a greeting or salutation made by pressing or touching noses
a person's armpit
foggy, damp or cold
an execution carried out by drowning
a suction bottle for collecting insects and other small invertebrates
part of the body; having a hooked shape

WORDS (match to meanings above)

fugacious
mamaguy
shofar
hongi
oxter
rawky
uncinate
noyade
pooter

Here's this week's book - A GHOST TO DIE FOR by Keta Diablo

About the book:
Contemporary Romance/Paranormal

Do you believe in ghosts? Rooney Fontaine doesn't—or didn't until one named Stuart Granger shows up in her hotel room. Now the humorous, yet desperate, apparition is begging her to find the men who murdered him before his brother becomes their next victim.

After serving three tours in Afghanistan and one in Iraq, Stephan Granger is no stranger to risk and peril. When a woman shows up at his house rambling about ghosts, murder and assassins, his first inclination is to deem her wrong in the head and send her packing. But how does she know things that happened to him and his dear departed brother in their childhoods, secrets they never shared with anyone?

Soon after he invites her in to hear more about what really happened to Stuart, gunfire splits the air and shatters all the windows in the house. Someone is trying to kill them. Now they're on the run from assassins while trying to find out who killed his brother and why they want him dead too.

Even amid murder and mayhem, sometimes you find love.

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CORRECT ANSWERS
shofar
in ancient times, to sound a battle signal
uncinate
part of the body; having a hooked shape
rawky foggy, damp, and cold
pooter
a suction bottle for collecting insects and other small invertebrates
oxter
a person's armpit
noyade
an execution carried out by drowning
mamaguy
to try to deceive someone by flattering them or telling them lies
hongi
a greeting or salutation made by pressing or touching noses
fugacious
transient or fleeting

This Week's Word - Do U Know What These Words Mean? #SmartGirlsReadRomance

Hey Wordsmiths, Friends and Followers.

Thanks so much for visiting Smart Girls Read Romance today.

If you're like me, you love words, unusual words, funny-sounding words and words you've never read or even heard of before.

This week, I chose seven words that are very unusual. I didn't know what any meant when I came across them. Below, I've listed these words. (Definitions are below at the end of this post). Try to guess what they mean or how you could use them in a sentence . . . if you're lucky enough to know their meanings.

Good luck and no cheating (lol).

absquatulate
bobsy-die
decubitus
emacity
kenspeckle
mollitious
pilgarlic
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Keta's Latest Thriller:

SEASON, UNFORGETTABLE

Do you love thrillers, mysteries and Happily-Ever-Afters?

If so, you'll love Season, Unforgettable. Yes, it's an unusual title, and it isn't about 'seasons' of the year. Our heroine of the story happens to be named Season.

 

Here's the blurb:
Finalist Independent Author Network Book Award

Would you forsake your mother to save the woman you loved?

Season Scrimshaw isn't selling the land her parents left her when they died, not even to the gorgeous Rann Brogan who saved her life in the forest. Especially not after she finds out he was in the woods surveying her property.

Rann's mother, Charlotte, owns a large land development company. She wants Season’s property to put up a strip of luxurious, lakefront condos and Charlotte always gets what she wants. She sends Rann on a mission to seal the deal. To say Rann and his mother have had a normal mother/son relationship would be a stretch…a big stretch, but he’s always done her bidding.

This time it’s different. Rann hasn’t been able to get the beautiful Season out of his mind. While on his mission to secure the property, he realizes how much Season loves the land, and…he realizes somewhere along the line, Season has stolen his heart.

He discovers his mother will go to any length to get what she wants…including murder. Lives spiral out of control, secrets and lies take center stage. Rann is forced to choose between his mother and the woman he loves.

And he’s forced to become as dangerous and as lethal as Charlotte.

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Answers to Unusual Words

absquatulate - to leave somewhere abruptly
bobsy-die - a great deal of fuss or trouble
decubitus - Medicine the posture of someone who is lying down or lying in bed
emacity - fondness for buying things
kenspeckle - Scottish conspicuous or easily recognizable
mollitious - luxurious or sensuous
pilgarlic - a bald-headed man, or a person regarded with mild contempt

How many did you guess correctly or come close to? Congratulations if you knew some. Now, don't you feel smarter or at least more well-read?

See you next month for This Week's Word. Hope you enjoyed the post.

This Week's Word - Do You Know Your Geography Terms?

 

Hi all, welcome again to Smart Girls Read Romance or . . . if you’re a first-time visitor, we’re thrilled you stopped by. I usually post a word that you might be unfamiliar with. I call it “This Week’s Word". As a writer and a reader, I’m very fond of words (makes sense, huh?). I especially love words that relate to terrain, landscape, and geography. I come across words, especially in those old western romance stories, and don’t always know what kind of terrain the author is referring to.

Not long ago, I came across the word below. I hope you learn something new by its meaning! Knowledge is power as they say.

This Weeks Word

Malpaís

A term used in the Southwestern United States, Spain, Mexico, and other Spanish-speaking regions for a rough and barren landscape that consists of relict and largely uneroded lava fields exhibiting recognizable lava flows, volcanic cones, and other volcanic landforms. This type of volcanic landscape is extremely rough and difficult to traverse. It is characteristic of an arid environment because in more humid climates, lava fields are quickly destroyed by weathering and erosion.

The word 'malpaís' in Spanish translates to "badland," and this describes the area as being extremely rough and difficult to traverse and unusable for crops. Although a malpaís is often another word for the badlands that form by erosion of sedimentary rocks in the same environment, a malpaís is often associated with such types of lava plain terrain as found in a volcanic field.

How to use Malpais in a sentence:

The approach was loose dirt and malpais, which ran off down the gulch in small avalanches under our feet.

Notify Buck Weaver, so he can head them off if they try to cross the Malpais.

This Week’s Book is TRUTH OR DAIRE, a contemporary billionaire romance I wrote not too long ago. Details are below:

Steamy! Sexy! Swoonworthy!

DOWNLOAD HERE 

About the book:

When the unthinkable happens and Cagney Kissler discovers her boyfriend, Daire Bembry, is a lying, two-timing cheater, she tosses him out on his a** and heads to Florida to mend her fractured heart.

The Villa Bay Resort is everything her best friend, Lily, told her it would be, and more. But the trendy, popular bar at the resort, known as Sleazy Swallows, is a little more than Cagney can stomach.

On her way out the door, she meets someone who shares her reservations about public sexual-indulgence. Evan might be just what she’s looking for, and even if he isn’t, she’ll show her ex the true meaning of Truth or Daire.

Stand-alone erotic romance. Happy Ending

 

Thanks so much for stopping by! Hope you enjoyed This Week's Word. See you next month!

Merry Christmas & Welcome to This Week's Word

Merry Christmas all,

 

It's been a tough year for everyone, but a vaccine will soon be here! Woohoo! Here's wishing the very best to everyone in the new year! 

 

 It is Christmas in the heart

that puts Christmas in the air.

~ W.T. Ellis ~

 

 

 

Nabob

 

Noun [ NAY-bahb ]

A person of great wealth or importance.

Nabob gained its extended sense of a prominent person in the late 18th century, when it was applied sarcastically to British officials of the East India Company returning home after amassing great wealth in Asia. The word was perhaps most famously used by Vice President Spiro Agnew, in a 1970 speech written by William Safire, when he referred to critical members of the news media as "nattering nabobs of negativism."

Nabob is worth nine points in Scrabble.

 

Using Nabob in a sentence

When the nabob walked into the meeting, everyone stood to show respect to him.

I have a western romance for you today with a little Christmas theme and a HEA! This sweet novella was written in my pen name, Cait Braxton.

About Catherine’s Cowboy:

On the run from her vicious Kiowa husband, Catherine seeks shelter from a raging dust storm when labor begins. Fate steps in when retired tracker Elam also seeks refuge from the elements and stumbles upon the same ramshackle dwelling.

Elam helps Catherine deliver her child and a strong bond develops between them. But outside, biding his time until the squall passes, someone evil longs to claim both their lives and take what is rightfully his…the child.

I'm going north where the grey wolf country is.
The wolves might eat or kill me.
I may not come back
Brother, if I don't come back, you will cry for me.

RAVES

“First, I loved the cover of this novella. I really enjoyed reading it as well. It is well written and both sweet and suspenseful. Catherine and Elam have both suffered loss and have the chance at happiness with each other.” – Carol, Goodreads Addict

“Cait Braxton did an amazing job! A white girl, taken by the Kiowa years before, escapes the brutality of her powerful husband while ready to give birth. A tale filled with fear, bravery and honor, the feeling of hope for the future still shines through!” Dianne B. Tome Tender

 

FREE on KU or .99 Cents!

Thanks so much for stopping by. Don't forget to leave a review if you enjoyed Catherine's Cowboy. 

Gracias, Keta

Welcome to Smart Girls Read Romance & This Week's Word

 

Hoise

Verb [hoyz]

Lift, raise, especially to raise into position by or as if by means of tackle.

You'll rarely encounter hoise in any of its regular forms: hoise, hoised, or hoising. But a variant of its past participle shows up fairly frequently as part of a set expression. That variant past participle is hoist. The expression is hoist with (or by) one's own petard, which means victimized or hurt by one's own scheme. This phrase owes it popularity to Shakespeare's Hamlet."For 'tis the sport to have the engineer hoist with his own petar(d)." A petard is a medieval explosive.

Oh, and if you're playing scrabble this word is worth 7 points! How about that.

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I'd like to share with you one of most recent contemporary romance novellas - TRUTH OR DAIRE.

About the book: (for a few more days, this book is available in KDP

When the unthinkable happens and Cagney Kissler discovers her boyfriend, Daire Bembry, is a lying, two-timing cheater, she tosses him out on his a** and heads to Florida to mend her fractured heart.

The Villa Bay Resort is everything her best friend, Lily, told her it would be, and more. But the trendy, popular bar at the resort, known as Sleazy Swallows, is a little more than Cagney can stomach.

On her way out the door, she meets someone who shares her reservations about public sexual-indulgence. Evan might be just what she’s looking for, and even if he isn’t, she’ll show her ex the true meaning of Truth or Daire.

Stand-alone erotic romance. Happy Ending
 

AMAZON KDP

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