a month of posts - day thirteen

Here are some vocabulary that I've been familiarising with recently...

• filthy - the word to describe everything and anyone amazing and good looking (according to my colleague Megan)
• vex - to make someone annoyed, frustrated, worried esp over trivial matters (an underused word these days... rediscovered the word whilst reading Persuasion)
• surgeon - a medical practitioner who treats wounds and fractures (also from Persuasion... this definition of the word has definitely evolved in the last two centuries)
• ascetic - a person who dedicates his or her life to a pursuit of contemplative ideals and practices extreme self-denial or self-mortification for religious reasons (new word to me)
• olanzapine - an antipsychotic medication used to treat first episodes of schizophrenia (I learnt the word from Sarah who's been memorising lists and lists of drugs for her nursing course)
• aduh - an Indonesian word for 'ouch' (it's used as an exclaimation and my sisterinlaw uses is all the time!)