Words4Nerds #8
2002-10-11
The "words of the week" this time all have to do with sound:
- susurrus - a soft whispering, murmuring, or rustling sound
- tintinnabular - having to do with the ringing of bells
- stentorian - having a voice like Stentor, the herald of the Greek army in The Iliad, who had the voice of 50 men
- plangent - beating or reverberating with a loud or deep sound
- sibilance - the condition or quality of producing a hissing sound
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