My new Word of the Moment is PERPLEXING. It came to me as I was writing my novel.
“Seeing herself standing before her was a very perplexing experience.”
Never mind why she was standing before herself. The point of this post is the word Perplexing.
It interested me because of the X. X is a rock-star letter, that raises the interest of whatever word its in. It seems to naturally attract all the attention, so that no matter what word its in, people always remember the X.
All of the letters here word together quite well, so that the word rolls off the tongue quite naturally. There is a lot of teamwork involved in this word. Despite X getting so much attention, its remains quite grounded and not arrogant at all. In fact, the other letters don’t mind X getting the attention, as more attention for X is more attention for the word.
Overall its a very well rounded and slightly underused word. I like it.
