Monday, October 12, 2009

Word of the Week#6

(1)The word of the week:periphrasis

(2)Source: Long Time, No see: Why We Dream of People from Our Past (The article of divine caroline)

(3)The entire sentence in which I found this word:
We won't have seen or thought about someone in ages, and then suddenly he'll appear as a central figure in a dream, or someone in our peripheral awareness will come to the fore at a seemingly arbitrary time.

(4) Dictionary definition of the word:
noun: the use of indirect and circumlocutory speech or writing

(5)This expression is a favorite journalistic periphrasis.

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