Vitreous: resembling glass, or pertaining to glass. You can also say vitric, which I think is way more cool. Big words usually sound like they’re supposed to be unheard of, which in turn makes the exclaimer of the word sound kind of arrogant, but small words usually sound like everybody is supposed to know about them. And when your Word spelling checker paints a little red wavy line under it, you know you got a totally obnoxious word.
Vitreous comes from the Latin word vitrum, which means glass (no really). Come to think of it, I’m sure that the Dutch word vitrage (that’s a sleek see-through curtain) comes from the same root. And the word vitrine (that’s both English and Dutch) too.
The verb that goes with all this is vitrify, which obviously denotes the process of turning something into glass or a glassy (vitric) substance.
Next time your teacher asks you a question that you absolutely certainly surely know the answer to, say kinda haughtily: Ew, that’s really rather vitric, wouldn’t you say?
Let us know if you got yelled at for that.
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