Thursday, June 2, 2011

Apparently some very underused words...

Concupiscence - sexual desire or lust
Draconian - unusually severe or cruel
Evanescent
- vanishing quickly
Hornswoggle - to cheat
Ossify
- to become rigid or inflexible , hard (like bone)
Paroxysm - sudden violent attack
Penurious - extremely stingy, parsimonious
Schadenfreude
- pleasure or happiness felt at someone else's expense
Sibilance - having a hissing sound
Skullduggery - trickery

1 comment:

TStok said...

I have always enjoyed "draconian." It always reminds me of Poe.

Yes, I still subscribe to your blog. Glad to see you get the inspiration to write every once in a while.

Hope all is well!