Welcome to another mind-bending installment of Word Woman's Weekly Work-Out! A mind is a terrible thing to waste, so keep yours in tip-top shape by expanding your vocabulary. Now, let's get started with the Word of the Week:
Leptosome: (lep-tuh-sohm) A person of long, narrow build. -- "The New York Times Everyday Reader's Dictionary of Misunderstood, Misused, Mispronounced Words", Laurence Urdang, ed., The New York Times Book Company, 1972.
Example: Being a family of leptosomes, the Petersons decided to increase the height of all of the doorways by six inches when they remodeled their house in order to significantly reduce the incidence of concussions incurred while moving from room to room.
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