callosity
context: The Golden Apples, by Eudora Welty, in a story entitled "The Wanderers", p 241.
looked up in Webster's New World Dictionary Third College Edition
callosity (ke las' e te) n. [ME & OFr calosite < L callositas] the quality or state of being callous, hardened, or unfeeling
My sentence: I suffer from callosity on the soles of my feet because I go barefoot as much as possible.
Hee! I keep an enormous dictionary on my nightstand. I hate the idea of not knowing what everything means. It's nice to see that someone else has to look up a word or two while their reading.
ReplyDeleteDear Piksea,
ReplyDeleteIt is nice to know that other people still use the dictionary these days! Did you know that they don't teach this skill much in schools anymore? I know, I am a tutor.
How can you not teach people to use the dictionary? That's outrageous! No wonder no one can spell, speak properly or read. How very sad.
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