prolix\ pro-LIKS; PRO-liks \ adjective
Meaning
1. Extending to a great length; unnecessarily long; wordy.
2. Tending to speak or write at excessive length.
I sat in the chill of the living room, stone-cold tiles beneath my feet, my nose running slightly. Staring at the box I felt like I was drifting off into a sleep: transfixed by the prolix game, deeply bored.
If only there was somewhere else to be.
Suddenly a moment of excitement, the crowd cheers, the ball is getting nearer, nearer, he's going to, yes, yes. No. I think of the last time I nearly orgasmed, but didn't. Cynicism is a learnt state.
Saturday, 19 March 2011
Thursday, 13 May 2010
nosocomial \nah-suh-KOH-mee-ul\ adjective
Meaning: acquired or occurring in a hospital
The truth of the matter is that none of us will live forever, but most of us will die outside of a hospital. Perhaps a nursing home, or ground up in a car. What killed Susan was certainly nosocomial, but she wasn't a patient, or stay long enough to actually be killed by it within those antiseptic painted walls. She met him while she was visiting a friend, and he picked up the infection that would kill her while he was getting stitches. She was just unlucky, they said. He was lucky he'd not caught it too. Jack didn't feel lucky.
Meaning: acquired or occurring in a hospital
The truth of the matter is that none of us will live forever, but most of us will die outside of a hospital. Perhaps a nursing home, or ground up in a car. What killed Susan was certainly nosocomial, but she wasn't a patient, or stay long enough to actually be killed by it within those antiseptic painted walls. She met him while she was visiting a friend, and he picked up the infection that would kill her while he was getting stitches. She was just unlucky, they said. He was lucky he'd not caught it too. Jack didn't feel lucky.
Thursday, 6 May 2010
spelunker \spih-LUNK-er\ noun
Meaning : one who makes a hobby of exploring and studying caves
"What's that?"
"I said, I'm going to have to climb back round the other way."
"Okay, so, should I wait here?"
"Sure. I'll only be a few minutes."
Jenny had never wanted to be here. It was wet and dark. Her socks were sticking to her feet, and she could feel mud in the bottom of her shoes. That's what she got for dating a spelunker, she thought.
Meaning : one who makes a hobby of exploring and studying caves
"What's that?"
"I said, I'm going to have to climb back round the other way."
"Okay, so, should I wait here?"
"Sure. I'll only be a few minutes."
Jenny had never wanted to be here. It was wet and dark. Her socks were sticking to her feet, and she could feel mud in the bottom of her shoes. That's what she got for dating a spelunker, she thought.
pianistic \pee-uh-NISS-tik\ adjective
Meaning
*1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of the piano
2 : skilled in or well adapted to piano playing
The rhythmic motion he possessed sent me into exquisite ecstasies. Every part of him seemed to beat up and down my body in a pianistic pattern, so that the complex orgasmic feelings became arousing symphonies in my head. He conducted with his baton so that every element of my orchestra was unable to resist. Climax after climax came, with only slight moments to breath in between them. I gasped.
Meaning
*1 : of, relating to, or characteristic of the piano
2 : skilled in or well adapted to piano playing
The rhythmic motion he possessed sent me into exquisite ecstasies. Every part of him seemed to beat up and down my body in a pianistic pattern, so that the complex orgasmic feelings became arousing symphonies in my head. He conducted with his baton so that every element of my orchestra was unable to resist. Climax after climax came, with only slight moments to breath in between them. I gasped.
artifice \AHR-tuh-fus\ noun
Meaning
1 a : clever or artful skill : ingenuity b : an ingenious device or expedient
*2 a : an artful stratagem : trick b : false or insincere behavior
The clip fell, brushing the side of the table, and lodging itself firmly in the pile of the carpet. No one would see it again for forty years. The artifice of the clever slip was that now it would be impossible for anyone to understand what had happened here, so important was the evidence to the crime. Whether she had done it by accident, or an unconscious decision, was not clear. But it would keep her out of jail.
Meaning
1 a : clever or artful skill : ingenuity b : an ingenious device or expedient
*2 a : an artful stratagem : trick b : false or insincere behavior
The clip fell, brushing the side of the table, and lodging itself firmly in the pile of the carpet. No one would see it again for forty years. The artifice of the clever slip was that now it would be impossible for anyone to understand what had happened here, so important was the evidence to the crime. Whether she had done it by accident, or an unconscious decision, was not clear. But it would keep her out of jail.
sarcasm \SAHR-kaz-um\ noun
Meaning
1 : a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2 *a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b : the use or language of sarcasm
"What can one say of the death of love, other than that its presence will be sorely missed. We will however move on from this, and achieve greater things in the days ahead." The President's voice rang out from the loud speaker with a rustling.
Since June 24th, several hundred human emotions and means of interaction had been eradicated. Some had disappeared through specific government interventions, but most had disappeared simply through a lack of use. On Monday tolerance had been lost, on Tuesday it had been sarcasm. And today went love.
Meaning
1 : a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain
2 *a : a mode of satirical wit depending for its effect on bitter, caustic, and often ironic language that is usually directed against an individual b : the use or language of sarcasm
"What can one say of the death of love, other than that its presence will be sorely missed. We will however move on from this, and achieve greater things in the days ahead." The President's voice rang out from the loud speaker with a rustling.
Since June 24th, several hundred human emotions and means of interaction had been eradicated. Some had disappeared through specific government interventions, but most had disappeared simply through a lack of use. On Monday tolerance had been lost, on Tuesday it had been sarcasm. And today went love.
repine \rih-PYNE\ verb
Meaning
1 : to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain
*2 : to long for something
My face burned. I hated being there, and wanted to be out of it. But there I sat, going through every motion, trapped into it, like a ball rolling down a hill. I repined for my freedom, but persisted, a conscious prisoner to my own belief that I must stay. Somehow that motion was what made it bearable, the continual changes, moment to moment, consistently creating fresh air within the hot, hostile environment I found myself in. Errors were made, corrected, forgotten. Fresh tasks always coming up, never letting up. I felt like I was struggling through a waterpipe, struggling on, desperately waiting the release of fresh air. To stop would mean to drown.
Meaning
1 : to feel or express dejection or discontent : complain
*2 : to long for something
My face burned. I hated being there, and wanted to be out of it. But there I sat, going through every motion, trapped into it, like a ball rolling down a hill. I repined for my freedom, but persisted, a conscious prisoner to my own belief that I must stay. Somehow that motion was what made it bearable, the continual changes, moment to moment, consistently creating fresh air within the hot, hostile environment I found myself in. Errors were made, corrected, forgotten. Fresh tasks always coming up, never letting up. I felt like I was struggling through a waterpipe, struggling on, desperately waiting the release of fresh air. To stop would mean to drown.
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