Hi all!
I'm sorry for my tardiness and general laziness! I shall endeavour to do a couple of words a couple of times this week to make up for it!

I have been reading 'Wicked' by Gregory Macguire and he uses some fantastic words but I seem to lose them as soon as I find them. Hiding within the pages, I keep going back to find some of the juicy words but keep being unsuccessful. I think I will have to read with a notebook next to me so as to remedy this problem! Here are a couple I managed to find though are not the best....

AMANUENSIS

noun

one employed to write from dictation or to copy manuscript


VERDIGRIS

noun

a green or greenish blue poisonous pigment resulting from the action of acetic acid on copper, consisting of one or more basic copper acetates, and formerly used in medicine