“I loved ‘perspicacious’ and ‘recondite’ and ‘hortatory’ and ‘cleave,’ the last of which meant the opposite of itself, both to join and to tear apart. ‘Impregnable’ was an autoantonym, too. It was like a snake that ate its own tail.”
“I loved ‘perspicacious’ and ‘recondite’ and ‘hortatory’ and ‘cleave,’ the last of which meant the opposite of itself, both to join and to tear apart. ‘Impregnable’ was an autoantonym, too. It was like a snake that ate its own tail.”