Twice in two days I heard a $10 vocabulary word, scintilla, used. Once in print, once in conversation.
It catches your ear, that word.
Scintilla means a shred or tiny particle. A scarcely detectable amount.
"Thanks to the neighbor's barking dog, I got only a scintilla of sleep."
No sleep, but I made my friends snap to attention with clever word usage.
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
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