favorite words

-Apotheosis- the perfect example, elevated to devine status

-miasma-a heavy vaporous emanation or atmosphere, an influence or atmosphere that tends to deplete or corrupt

-muliebrity- qualities feminine, womanly

-feme covert- married woman

-peri- a fairy, attractive woman

-benighted-Intellectually, morally, or socially ignorant; unenlightened

-petrichor-the smell that accompanies the first rain after a dry period

-heteroclite- eccentric

-bibacious- Overly fond of drinking

-ebrious- inclined to excessive drinking ; tipsy

-callipygian- having a shapely buttocks

("Yet far more terrible the line that flows From ebrious passion to supine remorse.") Richard Monckton Milnes (1809-1885); The Fall of Alipius


subdolous - Sly; crafty; cunning.


dissemble - To hide true feelings, motives, or the facts.

mendacious - Telling lies, especially as a habit.

caliginous - Dark, gloomy, obscure, misty.

filemot- the color of a dead or faded leaf; dull brown, or yellowish brown