A propitious moment for improving your vocabulary, not to mention your social skills

June 17th, 2007

Athena Mentor has an unequivocal predilection for exercising her prodigious vocabulary at inopportune moments.

Actually, she doesn’t; she’s just willing to talk like a twit in order to help you build your vocabulary.

unequivocal: definite, firm, with no shilly-shallying around (which see) and no two ways about it

predilection for (-ing): tendency to (infinitive), liking for (noun)

prodigious: very large, great, formidable (hmm, check it out)

Athena Mentor finds it delightful when her favorite well-bred Anglo-Irish friend calls on the phone and asks, “Am I inopportune?”

inopportune: inconvenient, unsuitable, and in other contexts, unpropitious

Your turn to look up “propitious.” May this summer be a propitious time to improve your vocabulary!