(More) Words

This has been a really busy week and I've been fighting a cold. Most of the posts have been about a day behind because I throw a few thoughts together in a draft sometime during the day, but don't have time to complete and post them until the next morning. Technically, that means I'm blogging everyday so blog365 can kiss my ass! I'm following the rules.

Somewhere in my mind I believe there are agents of blog365 trolling the interwebs keeping track. I'm fucking paranoid. My mind is clouded with visions of suddenly waking up wearing a pillow case over my head, tied naked to a chair with electric probes attacked to my balls and being tortured until I confess that I really don't post a new blog every single day. Check my post dates! I shriek before passing out in a puddle of wet pleasure. I mean horrid pain.

Anyways, let's not talk about my sexual fantasies. I'm losing focus and my pants are getting tight.

Now I don't know about you, but I love words and using knowledge like a weapon. There is nothing like making somebody feel like a dumbass. Talk about satisfying. The best part is it's not that hard to do. The world is full of really stupid people.

Unfortunately, many of those stupid people write for a living. As a writer myself, there is a time and a place for sloppy writing. For example this blog. It's written so quickly and haphazardly I hardly even bother to spell check and my grammar is shit. But that's the style and you can love it or leave it. Professionally, however, it's a different story. My facts are checked, sentence structure well thought out, and my use of words is accurate.

I often read something and wonder if the author actually knows the meaning of the word they just used. I've all but given up on tasking people on the correct use of "ironic" for example, because that word is so commonly misused there's just no hope. For the record, there are many things that are strangely coincidental, but that does not make them ironic. Please look up that word.

There is a little game I play with myself when I spot a misused word. First I determine what I believe to be the word's meaning, and then check the dictionary. Sometimes I'm right, other times I learn new things. And yet there are times I just really like a word and want to add it to my vernacular. All the while, I jot them down on a post-it. When I have multiple post-its pile up, I transcribe them here.

Do you know these words?

ENGENDER
en-jen-der | v.
To produce or cause, create, develop, or bring about


RECALCITRANT
ri-kal-see-trant | adj.
Showing repugnance or opposition; stubborn resistance


REQUIEM
rek-wee-uhm | n.
In music, a Mass for one or more dead persons, containing biblical passages and prayers for the admission of the dead to heaven


APOPLECTIC
ap-ah-plek-tek | adj.
Furious to the point of having a stroke


DEFENESTRATE
de-fen-es-trāt | tr.v.
To throw from a window