New Words: Tatter, Detritus, Clamber, Buck Teeth, Epigraph

... and scraped, fester, hears, lionize. Now that's a lot of new words in just one article, ain't it?

The sad thing is, that is the fact as far as I'm concern. These words are from an article written by Roy Clark of Poynter Institute, titled "What Happens to a Verb Deferred?"

Okay, let's see the meaning of each word:

Tatter, Detritus, Clamber, Buck Teeth, Epigraph, Scraped, Fester, Prophetic, Hearse, Lionize... to be continued; too sleepy to be productive...

New Words, Use It Twice And It Is Yours

Well, some are not exactly new words to me. It's just that I seldom use them.

From the article "Obama surges ahead of McCain":

"...John McCain fumbled his response to a looming US economic cataclysm - one that threatened to match the financial catastrophe of the 1930s Great Depression."

1. Fumble:

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• grope: feel about uncertainly or blindly; "She groped for her glasses in the darkness of the bedroom"
• make one's way clumsily or blindly; "He fumbled towards the door"
• handle clumsily

2. Cataclysm:

• calamity: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity";
• "the earthquake was a ...

3. Catastrophe:

• calamity: an event resulting in great loss and misfortune; "the whole city was affected by the irremediable calamity"; "the earthquake was a ...
• a state of extreme (usually irremediable) ruin and misfortune; "lack of funds has resulted in a catastrophe for our school system"; "his policies were a disaster"
• a sudden violent change in the earth's surface