WORD MAN: STENTORIAN

Stentorian Meaning

I found a new word in an Agatha Christie novel, The Mysterious Affair at Styles. The word is stentorian, which means loud and powerful.

Like "a stentorian roar" of a voice. Similar words include loud, booming, thundering, thunderous, deafening, powerful and strong.

From the same novel, I found impecunious, which means having little or no money, penniless.

The Christie book also offers the word tetanic, which looks like a cross between Titanic and tetanus. Tetanic refers to something that causes or is related to tetanus or tetany, often producing sustained muscle contractions. 

So tetanus fits.

Later, Hercule Poirot says ne vous fâchez pas to Arthur Hastings. It's French for "don't be angry (with me)."

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