Words

i wanted a place to post words that tickle, intrigue, beguile me. What may appear here: Words i like and want a poem or story to arise in which i can put them to use. Words i don’t know the meaning of and want to look up. Words that sting or tug or otherwise want my life’s attention.

evince: To show or demonstrate clearly; to manifest (wiktionary)

hell What I go through every year at this time when my child is asked to sell 14 boxes of cookies … and if he doesn’t? He doesn’t get to go to the ice cream party.

hunkers Just heard this used as a noun…having only hunkered down before. Dictionary.com has these: 4. hunkers, one’s haunches. 5. on one’s hunkers, a. British Informal. squatting on one’s heels.

interlineated From Websters: Main Entry: 1in·ter·line /Pronunciation: \ˌin-tər-ˈlīn\ /
Function: transitive verb /Etymology: Middle English enterlinen, from Medieval Latin interlineare, from Latin inter- + linea line /Date: 15th century /: to insert between lines already written or printed — in·ter·lin·e·a·tion \-ˌli-nē-ˈā-shən\ noun

serried pressed together or compacted, as soldiers in rows: serried troops.