Verdant (adj)
vur-dent
Green with vegetation; covered with growing plants or grass. / Of the colour green.
First recorded in 1575–85; verd(ure) + -ant
Example sentences
“I took a hike in the verdant forest yesterday.”
Wonky (adj) won-kee Not straight or balanced, off kilter. First recorded in 1915–20; perhaps variant of dialectal wanky, equivalent to wank(le) ( Middle English wankel, Old English wancol. (more…)
Booker-prize winning author, Bernardine Evaristo, has lent her voice to renewed calls for schools in England to offer more diverse literature texts on the curriculum. The first Black woman to…
