"Word of the Week" is a meme hosted by the Plain-Spoken Pen on Mondays in which we share a word that we find entertaining, enlightening, edifying, or just plain fun to say!
Despite it being my second time reading Locked Rooms by Laurie R. King, I have found two great words used in it that I don't remember encountering previously.* Last week's was recherché, while toward the end of the book I came across "ratiocination". A search of several sites gives the following definition:
It was mentioned in conjunction with Sherlock Holmes, and I have to say, it's the perfect word to use side-by-side with such a man.
How about you? Did you already know this word? Have you run across any great words in the past week?
*I don't know whether to blame it on my sieve-like memory, or the fact that I listened to the audiobook version, and it is easy for me to forget things I don't see in print. Either way, I got to discover a pair of new words!
