Monday: denouement - The final part of a play, film, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved: e.g. 'the film’s denouement was unsatisfying and ambiguous'
Tuesday: inosculate - Join by intertwining or fitting closely together
Wednesday: peccavi - (archaic) Used to express one's guilt
Thursday: vigesimal - Relating to or based on the number twenty: e.g. a vigesimal mathematical system
Friday: vicarious - Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of another person: e.g. 'this catalogue brings vicarious pleasure in luxury living'
Saturday: verbose - Using or expressed in more words than are needed: e.g. 'much academic language is obscure and verbose'
Sunday: ingratiate - (ingratiate oneself) Bring oneself into favour with someone by flattering or trying to please them: e.g. 'a sycophantic attempt to ingratiate herself with the local aristocracy'
Words and definitions from Oxford Dictionaries Online's Word of the Day.
Playing with this week's words!
- The play's denouement was verbose
- The denouement inosculated the various storylines
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