Vocabulary List, entry #5
I've started reading The Horse and His Boy by C.S. Lewis out loud to my son. We couldn't wait for December. I've already found two words I had to look up:loquacity: adj. Very talkative; garrulous.
"And now tell me at once what price you put on him, for I am wearied with your loquacity." - page 6
copse: n. A thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice.
"He looked around them and saw where they were. Behind them lay a little copse. Before them the turf, dotted with white flowers, sloped down to the brow of a cliff." - page 16
More proof I have a lot to learn.
I wondered what C.S. Lewis meant by putting a few difficult words into his manuscript, but guess he was one to think its okay for children to stretch their minds and look things up in the dictionary. But I know as a child I would have just skipped the words I didn't know, and kept on reading.
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