I want to improve my diction. I feel as if I have plateaued in terms of the growth in my vocabulary, and my brain is probably feeling neglected in terms of new morsels of the English language to chew on. So I thought I’d start logging words I’d like to make greater use of. Maybe it would be more effective to read more widely rather than hoping to feed off the intellectual debris one picks up in the course of daily-life, but I’m hopelessly lazy and rather more concerned with educating myself through chance than through purpose. So here’s the first entry in my wordlist.

Effusive

(adj). Expressing feeling of gratitude, pleasure or approval in an unrestrained of heartfelt manner.

I just like the way it sounds really, it sounds like the sort of word usually uttered by an educated, well read sort of chap. Maybe a young horse-riding junior conservative lass who is the personification of the ‘woman in the kitchen, freak in the bed’ mantra. The sort of girl who is bemused by the simplicity of life outside of the pseudo-aristocracy. Not unlike like the girl from Pulp’s ‘Common People’, though less Greek and more Hampshire.