Guten tag, gentle readers! Glad to be back in the swing of things, and to have a week of routine back under my nonexistent belt. A reminder to all you folks that if you have freelancing or creative writing questions that have been burning holes in your heads and pockets, send ‘em on in for the QRW to take a crack. It will be illuminating. It will be amusing. It will be good reading. And it starts next week.

Guess what? It’s Friday. The sun is shining. Happy hour is a mere fivish hours away. All taken together? It’s Word Porn time.

No messing around – it’s been a long, long time and mama needs to scratch her itch. Let’s do this.

Roseate

The sound of a word can be just as fun as the definition and the silly sentence I put it in. This one sounds so delicate, so innocent, reminiscent of a time of chaste engagements and shifts and long locks pinned up everyday. It’s a Jane Austen setting waiting to happen. The definition is somewhat fitting with our initial impression: roseate means viewed favorably, or optimistic. Even overly optimistic. Ah ha! A chink in the armor of old school purity. Let’s exploit that sumbitch.

The apple-cheeked and willowy young lass confessed her true love and desire for her target of affection to the camera, and left satisfied. But since this was a reality show, led by an aging rocker consumed with tits, ass, and an overblown concept of his sexual appeal, the young girl’s beliefs would seem to be roseate. And in fact, the final winner of the competition was a truckdriving stripper with big jugs and a pierced hoo-hah.

Propitiate

You know those folks that are moving along, living their lives, and then explode in a paroxysm of anger at someone who doesn’t’ deserve it? Like the dude with pent up aggression issues who starts a verbal annihilation of the high school girl at the Starbucks counter, when really he wants to throttle his inane and demeaning boss? Yep, them. I think this word was made for them. Propitiate means to gain or regain the favor or goodwill of someone. Check it out.

After the eruption, Wes surveyed the scene and was horrified. He immediately proclaimed his intention to propitiate the young girl with coffee dripping from her hair, cream atop her nose, and the red bloom of burns appearing on her arms. But he exploded at the wrong girl, as he would learn, when the young one quickly took him aside and demanded her college tuition be paid in exchange for a lack of lawsuit and avoiding any claims of sexual misconduct with an underage person. He gulped, and acquiesced.

Deuteragonist

Whoa nelly! This one is a delight of consonants and vowels all mashed up into something exciting. It seems to resemble the title of one those biblical chapters, and I was expecting some fire and brimstone to boot. But nope. Deuteragonist means a person who serves as a foil to another. Hmm. How about this?

Serving as deuteragonist to Thunder Man was rad when Lightning Boy was 12. But as the years passed, and he reached his 40s still clad in primary-colored tights and cap, he felt he’d reached his end of sidekicking. So he grew a goatee, bought a phallic-shaped sports car, and started frequenting the high schools for a bevy of beauties.

Good times. Hope you enjoyed, and tune in next week for the first in a new series of writing case studies and Q&A.

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RANDOM LINK of the day: Ah, Joss Whedon. I have declared my love for thee in many forms and phrases, but here’s another. You effing rock. Not content to just sit back during the writer’s strike, you instead create this lovely and hilarious musical mini-opus about Dr. Horrible, Captain Hammer, and a redheaded lass. Check out Dr. Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog this week while it’s free; next week and after it will be available for purchase.