Thursday, 7 November 2013

Vocabulary : Word of the Day : Plangent

plan-gent



adjective :: Beating; dashing, as a wave. Loud and resounding.



"She moans along with the woman who is singing -- wailing, really -- her hands gripping the steering wheel to the plangent cries of the singer and the sobbing of violins." --Alice Walker

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