I belong to quite a few Goodreads groups. One of my very favourites is a women's reading group called "Bound Together", and one of my favourite things about the group is the yearly Bingo reading challenge. 2017 was the year of "idioms", and 2018 will be the year of "obscure words". Doesn't that sound fun?
Here is the outline from the Goodreads group. I will be updating my readings there and here. I love learning these new words, too! Hello, word of the week posts in my classroom!
Welcome to Obscure Word Bingo! This year the object is to read a book that matches the obscure word on the Bingo board. To make it a bit easier on you, the obscure words are listed below, alphabetically, with their definitions. Some words you may have heard before, but I’m hoping most are new to you! Otherwise this might be a draffish (worthless) challenge! A lot of this is open for interpretation, so filling your squares may be based on how you felt about a book, the topic of the book, a character in the book etc. Other words are more straightforward. The Rules: 1. Begins Jan 1, 2018, ends Dec 31, 2018. Books read before or after those dates do not count. 2. Create as many bingos as possible, ideally covering the whole board by year-end. 3. There’s no free space. All 25 squares have an obscure word for you to match to. 4. A book can only match to one square. Each square has to be a different title. 5. Keep us updated in this thread how you're doing and what you're reading to cover your squares. 6. Have a eellogofusciouhipoppokunurious (good) time! Bingo Words Billingsgate foul, vulgar abusive language Contumacious stubbornly perverse or rebellious; willfully and obstinately disobedient Crackjaw hard to pronounce Dowsabel sweetheart Emberlucock to confuse or bewilder Fardel anything cumbersome or irksome Gallimaufry a mixture of different things; hodge-podge Hobbledehoy a clumsy or awkward youth Hygge feeling of coziness, comfort; happiness and warmth Impavid fearless Lachrymogenic causing tears or weeping Lepid amusing or pleasant Luctation a struggle Morbus disease, sickness Niveous snowy, white Parviscient having little knowledge Quantulum a small amount or portion Rampallion ruffian, scoundrel, villain Recherché rare, exotic, obscure, unusual; also, pretentious Scrimshank to avoid one's obligations or share of work; shirk responsibility Symmachy fighting jointly against a common enemy Trouvaille something lovely found by chance Tsundoku buys books and doesn’t read them Unguiferous producing, having, or supporting nails or claws Urbicolous of or pertaining to a city; urban
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B 1. Hobbledehoy - Coal Black Horse, by Robert Olmstead 2. Recherche - Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel 3. Quantulum - A Day in the Life of Marlon Bundo, by Jill Twiss 4. Rampallion - The Diplomat's Wife, by Pan Jenoff 5. Lachrymogenic - The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto, by Mitch Albom I 1. Billingsgate - 13 Ways of Looking at a Fat Girl 2. Hygge - Middlemarch, by George Eliot 3. Impavid - Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer 4. Trouvaille - Mary Green, by Melanie Kerr 5. Morbus - 'Salem's Lot, by Stephen King N 1. Symmachy - It, by Stephen King 2. Emberlucock - My Jane Austen Summer: A Season in Mansfield Park, by Cindy Jones 3. Contumacious - Somewhere in France, by Jennifer Robson 4. Fardel 5. Urbicolous - Kill Shakespeare - Past is Prologue: Juliet by Conor McCreery G 1. Lepid - The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, by Mark Manson 2. Gallimaufry - Olive Kitteridge, by Elizabeth Strout 3. Crackjaw - The Book of Night Women, by Marlon James 4. Niveous 5. Scrimshank - All is Not Forgotten, by Wendy Walker O 1. Luctation - Longbourn, by Jo Baker 2. Unguiferous - Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury 3. Dowsabel - Outlander, by Diana Gabaldon 4. Tsunkdoku - Crime and Punishment, by Fyodor Dostoyevsky 5. Parviscient - The Pilot's Wife, by Anita Shreve