Twofer - onerous and peruse
Tuesday, July 8th, 2008I was inspired by the excerpt from my last entry to add two more words (those British authors sure have a way with words).
onerous - burdensome; difficult; wearing; tiring
perusal - studying something carefully
I do know what perusal means, but I’ll swallow my pride and admit that I used to have it wrong. The context in which I often saw peruse used was something along the lines of “I perused the magazine.”, which I assumed to mean the act of casually skimming through; that’s the way I usually read magazines. Instead it means the exact opposite. Charlotte Bronte had it right.