Wondrous Words Wednesday is a weekly meme where you can share new words that you’ve encountered or spotlight words you love. Feel free to get creative! If you want to play along, grab the button, write a post and come back and add your link to Mr. Linky! Hosted by Kathy at Bermudaonion.
This is my first WWW post! I’m happy to join in.
From Small Blessings by Martha Woodroof
bifurcated – “His whole life, Tom was beginning to realize, had been bifurcated by Henry’s arrival. The years before Henry sat on one side; the thirty-some hours after Henry on the other.”
Bifurcate means divide into two branches or forks. That seems evident in the context of the sentence. I don’t recall coming across the word before.
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Bifurcate sounds like a medicine to me! The prefix should have given me a clue. Thanks for playing along!
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Ha, I agree about it sounding like a medicine.
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Mary, welcome to WWW. This is one of my favorite meme’s, although I don’t get a chance to do it that often. Bifurcate is a great word to know! I hope I’ll remember it.
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Oops–that should be memes–no apostrophe!
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Thanks for stopping by, Susan! I hope to participate weekly in this meme.
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Thanks! for the new word.
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I just like the sound of the word though now I am going to figure out a way to use it at work 🙂
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I know! You’d sound really smart if you could work it into a conversation 😀
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I love WWW and am so glad you’re now participating, Mary. Your word had me stumped. LOL
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Thanks, Beth. I know you have this book and now you’ll feel so smart when you get to that sentence 🙂
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I’ve not heard this word. For some reason, I think of math or Algebra.
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Given the definition “divide into two branches or forks” I think a math or Algebra connection is a reasonable guess 🙂
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Wow, that’s a complicated way to say “split,” lol. I haven’t heard it before.
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I know I’ve heard that word before, but still, I had no idea what it meant.
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