This is the word of the day today on Dictionary.com: Kenspeckle, meaning conspicuous or easily recognized.<\/p>\n
I have turned my attention to this word in an attempt to assign a random writing exercise to myself. The first ten blog topics I thought up for today I rejected in a moment of good sense. And so I told myself, “Just go get the word of the day from Dictionary.com, and write about it.”<\/p>\n
Unfortunately, I was hoping to be a little less kenspeckle in my blogging today because I’m a little tired.<\/p>\n
I think I will tell you instead, then, that I am very proud of my nephew for being the Star Student at his school this month. I hope he feels absolutely kenspeckle in the best possible sense of the word.<\/p>\n
My nephew is in kindergarten. I don’t think we had Star Students when I was in kindergarten, but I do think that I must have been rewarded often for being a deep thinker because I spent a great deal of time in a place called “The Thinking Chair.” It was a kenspeckle experience.<\/p>\n
Honestly, have you ever heard this word before? I have a somewhat respectable vocabulary, I think, and I must say I don’t believe I’ve ever heard anyone say it out loud. I’m going to try it out over the next few days. I bet just saying it will make me feel fairly kenspeckle…and not in the good way either.<\/p>\n
Perhaps using words no one else uses could become an annoyingly kenspeckle hobby of mine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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