1. despicable (adj)
2. equilibrium (n)
3. exceptional (adj)
4. haphazard (adj)
5. indelible (adj)
6. indulge (v)
7. intensify (v)
8. malign (v)
9. quirk (n)
10. transient (adj)
11. vintage (adj)
12. matriarch (n)
13. excessive (adj)
14. prospectus (n)
15. antonym (n)
16. camaraderie (n)
17. mordant (adj)
18. postulate (v)
19. frenetic (adj)
20. lethargic (adj)
"Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study."
Aldous Huxley
"The limits of my language are the limits of my mind. All I know is what I have words for."
Ludwig Wittgenstein
“We live and breathe words.”
Cassandra Clare, Clockwork Prince
“If the word doesn't exist, invent it; but first be sure it doesn't exist.”
Charles Baudelaire
“Be silent or let thy words be worth more than silence.”
Pythagoras
“They can be like the sun, words.
They can do for the heart what light can for a field.”
Juan de la Cruz, The Poems of St. John of the Cross
“I am telling you what I know -- words have music and if you are a musician you will write to hear them.”
E.L. Doctorow