About Time for some Wanda Words of the Week – “S”

September 1, 2017 – I just typed “August” – where did Summer go?  In honor of Summer, here are some Wanda Words of the Week that start with “S”.  All were used in our local national paper, so they’re not oddball words that no one ever uses or you only find on that tear off “word a day” calendar you won in the office gift exchange.  Here goes (definitions are from Google and Merriam-Webster online):

Susurration:  a whispering sound :  murmur.  And the related, susurrus:  whispering, murmuring, or rustling – “the susurrus of the stream”.

Scabrous: rough and covered with, or as if with, scabs.  Indecent; salacious.  (Interesting combo, eh?)

Solipsism:  the view or theory that the self is all that can be known to exist.  Wikipedia: the philosophical idea that only one’s own mind is sure to exist. As an epistemological position, solipsism holds that knowledge of anything outside one’s own mind is unsure; the external world and other minds cannot be known and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical position, solipsism goes further to the conclusion that the world and other minds do not exist.  (The only thing I know for sure is that my mind is here.  Ya’ll may be some imagined something-er-other.)