This week’s theme
Misc words

This week’s words
coruscate
plenitude
rufescent
brume
altiloquent

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A.Word.A.Day

PRONUNCIATION:

(broom)

MEANING:

noun: Fog or mist.

ETYMOLOGY:

From French brume (mist), from Latin bruma (winter), from brevima dies (shortest day or winter solstice), from brevis (short). Earliest documented use: 1500.

USAGE:

“The asphalt gave way to a dirt road through a rain forest, its canopy wreathed in brume.”
Damon Tabor; The Greater The Sinner; The New Yorker; Mar 14, 2016.

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: