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16 Words that Describe Themselves
Most words have a rather abstract connection to the things they describe. The word yellow is ... Among them are “a speech ...
“People regularly use it to describe something ... Fogarty’s “101 Troublesome Words You’ll Master in No Time” (St. Martin’s Griffin). “Noisome sounds like noisy,” Fogarty writes.
Honeyfur: A five-year-old girl’s creation to describe ... sound made by a covey of partridges taking flight. "There are experiences of landscape that will always resist articulation, and of ...