Today’s Words That Work: Efflorescent

The word efflorescent (ef-luh-RES-unt) — from the French for “to flower out” — describes something that bursts forth or erupts suddenly.

Example (as used by Steve Paul in a syndicated review of Medium Raw: A Bloody Valentine to the World of Food and the People Who Cook by Anthony Bourdain: “I suppose it’s a given that Anthony Bourdain is a potty mouth. Even when evoking a saint in his new collection of hot-and-cold food essays, he can’t help dropping the emphatic, efflorescent curse.”