Katie's News Spree: January 2012

Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Schadenfreude: satisfaction or pleasure felt at someone else's misfortune

Phillumeny: the hobby of collecting matches, matchbooks, matchboxes, and other related items

Reductive: tending to present a subject or problem in simplest form (one viewed as crude)

50 "weeks" and running! Thanks for tuning in.

Voluble: speaking or spoken fluently and incessantly; marked by a ready flow of speech

Palliative : relieving or soothing the symptoms of disease or disorder without effecting a cure

FYI: we love Metroid.

Theriaca: a mixture of many drugs and honey formerly held to be an antidote to poison

Darkle: to become clouded or gloomy, to grow dark; to become concealed in the dark

Atelier: the workshop of an artist in the fine or decorative arts