Words of Wonder: first set
As a confessed word nerd my thoughts on subscribing to a word-a-day service shouldn’t be too surprising. I know you all have been waiting patiently for my list of words of wonder, words I’ve just learned.
A little background first. As a teacher of Advanced Placement English I know how important finding just the right word can be, and how the essay readers do delight in the right diction.
With this in mind I polished up a vocabulary system for my students, both Language and Literature, and have enjoyed their weekly sentences. This means my word-a-day segment has slipped to the wayside in our routine. Yet, these words are so delightful I cannot allow them to languish. I have harvested an abundance of verbiage, and like those extra apples on the tree, I feel compelled to share my bounty with my neighbors.
SET ONE
1. quotidian: usual or customary; everyday: quotidian needs.
Sarah languished in her quotidian routine living on her family’s Kansas farm, and longed for the glamour of New York that she read about in her subscription magazines.
2. obdurate: stubbornly resistant to moral influence; persistently impenitent; unmoved by persuasion, pity, or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
Franklin and Giselle valiantly attempted to persuade Uncle Max from wearing the garish lavender tie inset with tropical fishes to the awards banquet, and the more they pleaded with him, the more obdurate he remained in his refusal to wear the selected navy tie.
3. galimatias: confused or unintelligible talk.
Mrs Lignise sighed as she unfailingly attempted to tune out the loud, annoying galimatias surrounding her, chiding herself for her decision to chaperone the seventh graders on their bus trip to the museum.
Fave Pick of the Week: galimatias
It’s almost onomatopoeic: gal-uh-MEY-shee-uh s
It sounds all garbly and confused. A delicious word.
I’m hoping to interject a shortened version, thus creating a new word adoption.
I introduce “gali” as in:
She just went on and on about the importance of prepositions. Honestly, it was just gali after the first two minutes.
Hoping your day has been brightened through these wonderful words.
Remember: Avoid lapsing into becoming obdurate about including new words in your quotidian outings.
Pam Webb 
Galimatias = How I fear others may feel about my free spirited versing
I get the OED word of the day emailed to me every day and I’ve discovered some excellent obscure words through that. Yesterday’s was opuscule, n. “A small work; esp. a short or minor literary or musical work.”
It must be the little brother of “opus.”
Galimatias is a new one on me, I like it! I shall use it all the time now.
I end up mispronouncing it–so I just say “gali”