Perfection
You know what Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day is today? It's perfect...just perfect. Today's Word of the Day is...
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Febrile \FEB-ryle\In case you'd like some examples of how to use that word, MW provides a few:
Definition
adjective: marked or caused by fever, feverish
And then, you can of course, make up your own:ExamplesThe patient exhibited a rash and febrile symptoms that were consistent with a certain rare tropical infection."Febrile seizures typically occur between the ages of 6 months and 6 years old. They happen when a fever spikes very quickly...." — Vikki Ortiz Healy, Chicago Tribune, August 4, 2014
Melina sat on the couch, head propped with a fluffy pillow, her febrile symptoms, along with a sore throat, making her mother worry that she might have strep throat.
Comments
I share a word of the day with my writer's group. Usually it's whatever fun word I run across in whatever book I'm reading... I'm totally using this one today :)
Hope the writing is going well.
Putting this story in a blog has been highly motivational toward progression. If I go more than two days without writing I start to feel guilty... like I'm letting any readers down. I know I'd hate to wait more than a week for the next small part of a story, so I try not to do that to anyone else.