Monday: syllabub - A whipped cream dessert, typically flavoured with white wine or sherry
Tuesday: bemire - Cover or stain with mud: e.g. 'his shoes were bemired from travelling on foot'
Wednesday: émigré - A person who has left their own country in order to settle in another, typically for political reasons: e.g. 'Soviet émigrés and defectors'
Thursday: Pollyanna - An excessively cheerful or optimistic person: e.g. 'what I am saying makes me sound like some ageing Pollyanna who just wants to pretend that all is sweetness and light'
Friday: disconsolate - Very unhappy and unable to be comforted: e.g. 'she left Fritz looking disconsolate'
Saturday: controvert - Deny the truth of (something): e.g. 'subsequent work from the same laboratory controverted these results'
Sunday: sangfroid - Composure or coolness shown in danger or under trying circumstances
Words and definitions from Oxford Dictionaries Online's Word of the Day.
Playing with this week's words!
- She was disconsolate that her outfit was bemired
- Even being bemired couldn't stop her being a Pollyanna
- Despite those determined to controvert her work, she retained her sangfroid
Dads shoes are always bemired!
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