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Idoneous

idoneous \ahy-DOH-nee-uhs\ adjective Appropriate; fit; suitable; apt. One might have thought him colorblind, given that he thought a pairing of orange camouflage cargo pants and lime green sneakers idoneous.

Neoterism

neoterism \ nee-OT-uh-riz-uhm \  noun   1. An innovation in language, as a new word, term, or expression.   2. The use of new words, terms, or expressions. In dubbing her latest "catchphrase" a neoterism, she was actually making a complete ass of herself ... The quotation she claimed to have invented was, in fact, a repetition of phrase coined a mere 6 years prior.  === Please let me know if my overzealous use of neoterisms metastasizes into neoterrorism.

Hotchpot

hotchpot \HOCH-pot\ noun the bringing together of shares or properties in order to divide them equally. There was a spark of excitement in the air as eighteen women gathered in Molly's basement. Seventeen of them were anxious to split the profits from the Beanie Baby sales; Molly, on the other hand, was loath to discuss the results of the hotchpot -- having quickly learned from eBay that the once-coveted toys were no longer.

Birr

i lack birr to make this more than words. sometimes i surprise myself, sitting here on the earth as my creations soar. but not this one. this one will remain grounded, humble, simple. this blurb will not attempt to overcome its label. this one is not obsessed with "legacy" -- it is perfectly content to be skimmed through today with no need for it tomorrow. sometimes i want that for myself. sometimes i fear the same. why worry about the future when the present is perfectly adequate? humanity doesn't work that way, though. we were built to overcome  -- "we shall", we're told  -- the bad? the past? perhaps if i can just overcome the conditional and model myself after this simple string of words, my mediocrity will be shaped into a higher being. sometimes i want that for myself. sometimes i fear the same.

Birr

birr \bur\  noun 1. Force; energy; vigor. 2. Emphasis in statement, speech, etc. 3. A whirring sound. birr \bur\ verb 1. To move with or make a whirring sound. Luke Skywalker's first attempted catchphrase made a significantly smaller impact: "Hold the Birr beside you."

Conciliate

wants i grasped firmly when branches held crisping leaves still linger... part of me remains green as the leaves  this unexpected spring coax out of trees' limbs -- part of me wants to be entranced by you. that road leads to a cliff and neither of us cares to make the ultimate sacrifice for something so petty. i need to extinguish the want inside, a spark i've allowed to burn for far too long. it's time to conciliate my wants and needs. i want to be needed. i need to be wanted. he can fill me like no one can. with the tangible and that which remains unseen. if i remember nothing else, i need just remember my wants and needs are him alone.

Conciliate

conciliate \kuhn-SIL-ee-eyt\ verb 1. To overcome the distrust or hostility of; placate; win over. 2. To win or gain (goodwill, regard, or favor). 3. To make compatible; reconcile. 4. To become agreeable or reconciled. Desperate for a cohesive circle of friends, Natalie attempted to conciliate Twilight -loving Jane and Dracula fan Sarah at the local coffeehouse.

Mettle

i don't have the mettle to meddle in your affairs, much as i wish they were mine. and yet when i open my eyes i know meddling is the wrong strategy, given how little substance remains or ever was. heat only warms when i can see my breath and now it's summer in february and i have no need for your heat. and yet i still cling to your memory when i remember how cold i am inside.

Mettle

mettle \MET-l\ noun 1. Courage and fortitude. 2. Disposition or temperament. Ruth examined her hair in her rearview mirror, fully expecting to find sprigs of grey hair sprinkled in her tresses.  Tonight's three hours of babysitting had proven to her without a shadow of a doubt that she lacked the mettle to continue her employment.

Bleb

how much of this bleb is self-erected and how much created elsewhere and thrown over me like a net, built around me like a wall as i shrivel and die inside? does the melodramatic swirl about me or do i brew it inside myself and refuse to admit the role i've played? life is good but i fear that sometimes i pretend otherwise to make it more interesting. who wants to live in a rut with tires squealing to escape when the wheel aches to turn about? surely the duck's wildly paddling feet serve a larger purpose. functionally, yes, the webs serve to keep him afloat but does not the mallard seek solace in chaos? or are just the hens drawn to insanity? imbalance mirrors the moon, my goddess.

Educe

your eyes delve into me like a shovel breaking ground. will the gardener educe fragrant flowers and juicy fruit? will you nibble my flesh as my scent washes over you? ...or will you leave me bruised and downtrodden? will thorny weeds penetrate the cloth of the planter's gloves? there's a fine line between hard-to-get and a pipe dream. which am i? ...which are you? will you reap my fertile fields ...or rape them? will my fields lie fallow and unused, as you refuse to cultivate my bounty. will you ignore my potential for growth and neglect me altogether? will you shower me with water or drown me in it? (sustenance quickly grows to substance abuse.) or will you salt the earth and leave me empty and worthless?

Slimsy

(is my sex or self to blame for my thoughts on slimsy folk?) i scoff at our obsession (with perfection), fully cognizant of its yoke (around my neck). i criticize bodies evidencing vertebrae and will girls to discover self-worth. even so, standing before a mirror i engage in mental nips and tucks. and my fingers grasp paper as i stand in the magazine aisle. (is it nature or nurture that makes muscles appealing and fat reviled?) i look at pictures from my youth and envy my slimmer self. at the same time i note an absence of womanly curves. it seems bodies garner attention -- bony and buxom alike. (all of us can judge the physical world but do any of us truly have the right?)

Slimsy

slimsy \SLIM-zee\ adjective Flimsy; frail. Her face was pretty enough, but the slimsy frame that supported her disproportionately large head seemed more fitting for a nursing home than a dance floor.

Natheless

i woke at eight this morning with a head full of plans and a motivated spirit. natheless, i laid in bed until noon. watching you sleep, i let my dreams for the future entangle my dream for the always. watching you sleep: not a moment wasted.

Natheless

natheless \ NEYTH-lis \ adverb Nevertheless. Mr. Sheffield groaned as the dump truck pulled away from his house. He was now the owner of  18,000 sponges; natheless, his swimming pool still stood three-feet deep.

Remora

i am my biggest remora, blocking the pathway before me and complicating my days. the idealist inside tells me resistance builds character. still, i find it easy to empathize with the wire, whose copious energy is for naught but a little heat. of course energy must be converted to be more than potential and i should learn from the physical world to better impact the mental one inside. but it's still frustrating when the path i see is not the one i walk. it's out of my hands and i will always be a little awkward, and unavoidable -- like my husband playing "window" as he stands between me and the television screen. ...of course, what can one expect when the idealist inside is mental?

Remora

remora \  REM-er-uh \ noun 1. An obstacle, hindrance, or obstruction. 2. Any of several fishes of the family Echeneididae, having on the top of the head a sucking disk by which they can attach themselves to sharks, turtles, ships, and other moving objects.  The anthill proved too much a remora to Mark and he tumbled head over heels in front of his ranch-style home.

Deucedly

I. sometimes sin comes wrapped in plastic -- devil's food cake? under other circumstances, alluding to satan would provoke controversy but we just open our mouths and consume happily. though dieters might find the treat more a trick, providing a persistent flow of calories ticking up with the speed of a timebomb until -- strange reversal -- the number displayed exceeds a preset number that ms. craig established. what fun is watching weight when you can just watch and wait and smile as you dig your own grave? one bite equates to one small trowel of dirt on your coffin but we're all headed that way anyway so why not just enjoy the ride, however truncated. obesity turns life's roller coaster into the vortex or another ride at six flags that closes whenever it rains or whenever the wind breathes in a westerly direction or whenever i have been standing in line long enough that i start to plan my next destination which is probably the funnel cake stand beca

Deucedly

deucedly \DOO-sid-lee\ adverb Devilishly; damnably. Sarah ogled her new neighbor's deucedly tempting butt as he bent over to tend his vegetable garden. Her eyes slid to the circumscribed left ring finger grasping his trowel and she lamented her name's absence from his marriage license.

Shiv

i've buried you deep inside, a shiv sheathed in my heart. i slid into cardiac tissue sensing the danger of the blade but never the impossibility of pulling you loose. i thought i'd cauterized the wound with our heat. and its abrupt end. but the absence mislead me. it made my heart grow fonder of the blade threatening to separate atrium from ventricle. why do i cling to dreams that cannot be fulfilled? why can't i drop what cannot be and let self-destructive aspirations dry up like a raisin in the sun? i doom myself to live between contentment and sabotage, a silly game of subterfuge spent hiding behind blades of air, hills of wind on a plateau where all my acts are all too clear if i draw anyone's eye. i need to grab the hilt and pull you out. but i fear i'd just push you back in.

Shiv

shiv \shiv\ noun A knife, especially a switchblade. Joshua's shiv was really just a prop to complete his bully costume. He had learned years earlier that the suggestion of violence worked as well as any demonstration he could have performed.

Persnickety

everytime i try to return after a hiatus i am too hard, too unforgiving i need to draw out the hermit who sees beauty in ugliness, poetry in an unpoetic populace. politically incorrect, but valid: i need to follow the strategy of the pervert and lure her out with sugar this time. who's to say i'm not a pervert anyway? maybe not like those predators whose crimes earn them a dot on a map that worried parents study to soothe their fears (though i hear each glance waxes what it's supposed to wane). everyone has his own perversions, sins, flaws. i have too many, myself. but that should provide plenty of food for the hermit, once she's exhausted the supply of saccharine positivity.

Persnickety

persnickety \per-SNIK-i-tee\ adjective 1. Overparticular; fussy. 2. Snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob. 3. Requiring painstaking care. Gen. Sanders did not dare forsake the persnickety lifestyle he'd enlisted in. Yet deep within, underneath his shiny buttons and belt buckle, a part of him wondered how it would feel to sow chaos in a pauper's rags. So he became an orc.