Embolden- new word, fabulous meaning.

Today, I met a friend of a friend for the first time at a local Starbucks.

In our conversation, she used the word embolden. I complimented her and expressed that is such a great word! (I usually I have one fixated word choice that I will use- it had been emote)

Obviously, I love words. Words have such a profound meaning over our lives. If you pay attention closely, you can gain insight to yourself and others by the adjectives chosen to describe how they see the world.

em·bold·en/emˈbōldən/

Verb:

Give (someone) the courage or confidence to do something or to behave in a certain way.
Cause (a piece of text) to appear in a bold typeface.

"To give someone the courage/confidence to behave in a certain way.." How beautiful is that? The more I've been reading lately, the more in love I become with words, sentences, paragraphs. Certainly, writing is an art, but it is a deliberate craft.

I'd like to personalize this as the following:

"Erika Cerino emboldens others through her openness, honesty and integrity. She is an inspiration of confidence and courage."

I encourage you to add this fabulous word to your vocabulary!

With love,
E xox

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