I am beginning some theme days here at Indigo Lake, with the first being "Expand Your Vocab." My hope is that we will find new words and word combinations to use in our daily discussions, that will not only clarify our thoughts, but make us sound like we know more than we really do.
Today’s words are intrinsically linked by a common similitude: 6/6/6
We’ll start at the beginning of becoming someone marked, with a word you may have heard and used many times:
Ignoramus: An ignorant person.
A nice adjective for an ignoramus is:
Feckless:
Lacking purpose or vitality; feeble or ineffective.
Careless and irresponsible.
I had a neighbor who loved to use this word to describe careless youth to their faces, and they thought they were cool to be called “feckless.” What feckless ignoramuses. Feckless ignoramus. Flows nicely from the tongue, doesn’t it?!
Moving up the scale from an ignoramus, we find this word:
Miscreant:
An evildoer; a villain.
An infidel; a heretic.
What’s a good adjective for a miscreant? Oh, how about this:
Opprobrious:
Expressing contemptuous reproach; scornful or abusive: opprobrious epithets.
Bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous: opprobrious conduct.
An opprobrious miscreant. A nice way to tell someone they are the devil incarnate, isn’t it?!
So, put them all together and what do we get? A feckless ignoramus that matures into an opprobrious miscreant.
And if you happen to be chatting about politics and governments and can’t find a nice word for a leader with the mark of the beast, here’s a word to use:
Quisling: A traitor who serves as the puppet of the enemy occupying his or her country.
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