nonpareil |ˌnänpəˈrel|adjectivehaving no match or equal; unrivaled : he is a nonpareil storyteller | [postpositive ] a film critic nonpareil.noun1 an unrivaled or matchless person or thing.2 a flat round candy made of chocolate covered with white sugar sprinkles.3 Printing an old type size equal to six points (larger than ruby or agate, smaller than emerald or minion).ORIGIN late Middle English : from French, from non- ‘not’ + pareil‘equal’ (from popular Latin pariculus, diminutive of Latin par ‘equal’).
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I'd LOVE to be a nonpareil storyteller! =D
ReplyDeleteoooh. I love vocabulary. I've been doing a word of the day for my composition class every day. I've tried to select words that I would use when writing or speaking - so not ridiculously outlandish words. Unfortunately they still haven't recognized any of them. It saddens me what limited vocabularies college freshmen have.
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