You may remember a post from earlier this year about the new-to-me words I’ve been keeping track of as I read. February yielded little for my list, but March was plentiful (albeit not as abundant as January was)! Here are the words of March 2024:

• Wet works: a euphemism for murder or assassination that alludes to spilling blood
• Deleterious: harmful, often in a subtle or unexpected way
• Sanguine: optimistic or positive
• Columbarium: a room, building, or wall that is designated for the interment of the ashes of people who have died and been cremated
• Malfeasance: an act that is illegal and causes harm to someone else
• Sunder: split apart
• Garrulous: excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters
• Absoquatulate: leave abruptly
• Hirsute: hairy
• Doona: duvet
• Fossick: to rummage or search
• Pannier: a basket, particularly like those designed to lie astride a mule or donkey
• Secateurs: a pair of pruning shears for use with one hand

What new or newly-discovered words have you come across of late?