This week we continue our vocabulary-building series, “The Closing Word.” Each week we provide a new word to help build your vocabulary and show you an example of how to use it.
This week’s closing word:
fulgent
Pronounced: (FULL-jent)
Adjective:
shining intensely
From Vocabulary.com: “The word fulgent is a fairly uncommon one, but it’s a perfect way to describe a brilliant or sparkling shine. Sunrise over the ocean can be fulgent, the light reflecting brightly off the water, and a movie star’s glittering diamond jewelry might also be called fulgent. You can also use the word in a figurative way, to describe someone’s dazzling personality. The Latin root is fulgentem, “shining, bright.”
Example:
“After Thanksgiving, we started to see fulgent holiday decorations appear on the lawns and eaves of our neighbors’ houses.”
