Monthly Archives: June 2011

Catacosmesis

Catacosmesis (kat-a-kos-mees’-is): Ordering words from greatest to least in dignity, or in correct order of time.

Years of hard work, months of anguish, days and days and days filled with hope and fear and loss and gain, and today, we stand at the threshold of a promise fulfilled. Tomorrow, we go home.

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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).

Thaumasmus

Thaumasmus (thau-mas’-mus): To marvel at something rather than to state it in a matter of fact way.

Wow! That pile of dirty dishes has to be a world record!

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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).