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Some of my stories are published in:
A Cup of Comfort Devotional for Mothers and Daughters (Adams Media, 2009)
Chicken Soup: What I Learned from the Dog (2009)
Love is a Flame (Bethany House, 2010)
Extraordinary answers to Prayer (Guideposts, 2010)
Love is a Verb (Bethany House, 2011)
Big Dreams from Small Spaces (Group Publishing, 2012)

Wednesday, April 3, 2013

Wednesday's (April 3) Word

Today's vocabulary word is:

Laconic (adjective)
Pronounced: la-kon-ik, with accent on second syllable
Definition: terse; using few words; concise.

This is a good word to describe the silent cowboy or the detective who thinks a lot but says very little.

Can you use "laconic" in a sentence?

Last week's word was keel-haul.
"The cruel captain from Mutiny on the Bounty used to keel-haul his sailors when they disrespected him. I wonder if some of the men drowned before they could be hauled back up from the underside of the ship."

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