Word of the day
Sunday, June 11th, 2006This weeks’s word of the week is “confabulate” (by way of Ha’aretz). Definition #2 is the more interesting one: con·fab·u·late (kən-făb‘yə-lāt‘) intr.v., -lat·ed, -lat·ing, -lates. To talk casually; chat. Psychology. To fill in gaps in one’s memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts. [Latin cōnfābulārī, cōnfābulāt- : com-, com- + fābulārī, to talk […]