Easeful – relaxed.
Exquisite – great beauty and delicacy.
Is not she an exquisite creature? p. 70.
Maul – 1. to wound by scratching or tearing.
2. to handle or treat savagely or roughly.
He mauled the edges of the paper with his reddened and blackened hands.
Flicker – 1. to shine or burn unsteadily or intermittently.
2. (of a feeling), to be briefly perceptible.
3. to make small, quick movements.
Spectral – of or like a spectra.
Spectrum: ‘image, apparition’ a band of colors produced by separation of the components of light by their different degrees of refraction, e.g. in a rainbow.
Dusk – the darker stages of twilight.
The fire light flickered on the wall and beyond the window a spectral dusk was gathering on the river.
This is what I'm doing for "work" now. I say "work" because it's not really. It's fun for an over-obsessive, perfectionist, wordprocessing freak like me.
I like words.
