Saturday, June 20, 2009

ebullient \ih-BUL-yuhnt\, adjective:


1. Overflowing with enthusiasm or excitement; high-spirited.
2. Boiling up or over.

Ebullient, but dumb as a rock. Alcohol turned her into a Labrador retriever. Or your Aunt. You know the one.

Friday, June 19, 2009

nimiety \nih-MY-uh-tee\, noun:


...The state of being too much; excess.

Think of just one human being's nimiety... inhaling/exhaling/consuming/excreting/consuming and building, building, building... It skews and distorts proportion until typical excess seems like subtlety, and the most gross displays of waste start looking like acts of responsibility.

Thursday, June 18, 2009

prescience \PREE-shuns; PREE-shee-uns; PRESH-uns; PRESH-ee-uns; PREE-see-uns; PRES-ee-uns\, noun:



...Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight.

Had she the prescience, would she have avoided this path? Or was it that she had disregarded the gift of her better judgment, following the path regardless - like you might follow a tempting smell into a dark alley, or stay at a summer-afternoon patio party on a weekday? Sighing to admit the latter- In the end, prescience keeps company with the empty afterwards...and who wants to hang with that crowd?

Wednesday, June 17, 2009

oneiric \oh-NY-rik\, adjective:


Of, pertaining to, or suggestive of dreams; dreamy.

Days and times spent with other people seemed increasingly oneiric; it was the long airless time that she could steal away from the business of being that carried the weight of reality. And daytime dreams seemed increasingly the province of a youth she no longer claimed. Was it time to wake up?

Sheep

Tuesday, June 16, 2009

salutary \SAL-yuh-ter-ee\, adjective:


1. Producing or contributing to a beneficial effect; beneficial; advantageous.
2. Wholesome; healthful; promoting health.

Nothing was more important than escaping the salutary air, which burned his lungs and accelerated his heart. And nothing confirmed more that he lived as an undeveloped negative of a person, polar to the natural workings of the world.

Monday, June 15, 2009

gravid \GRAV-id\, adjective:



Being with child; heavy with young or eggs; pregnant.

Tonight she was gravid with artificial light and smoke and other things that take initially, but will not grow.

redivivus \red-uh-VY-vuhs; -VEE-\, adjective:


Living again; brought back to life; revived; restored.

The moment was disturbingly familiar, a zombie of a moment; a childhood hurt redivivus.

effulgence \i-FUL-juhn(t)s\, noun:


...The state of being bright and radiant; splendor; brilliance.

The obfuscating effects of loneliness were all the more noticeable to those who had experienced her prior effulgence.

The dripping spring blossoms were effulgent in late light. The sun tore at the edges of the foggy day, as though it too had lately taken, and lately escaped, a desk job.