Rudyard Kipling vocabulary

Rudyard Kipling vocabulary spans his 101 or so volumes of work throughout Rudyard Kipling's prolific career. His writings include both children's books and Nobel Prize-winning prose and poetry.

Examples of vocabulary used in his works include:

• sinew (prononounced SIN-yoo), from the poem If--, meaning what binds a man as in his character.

Characters

• Mowgli (the boy), pronounced "MOE-glee" (although Kiplinger said he intended the "Mow" to rhyme with "cow")
• Bageera (the black panther), pronounced "buh-GHEE-ruh"