Peeking back in...

Edited November 4, 2009:
If you click on the link, you can make your own wordle, but mine, alas, is gone.

My poor little word experiment!

With the Summer's activities, seeing my husband graduate and become a Dr., helping to get him transitioned smoothly into a new position, Kids getting back into the routine of school (and the consequent involvement required by yours truly) and currently NaNoWriMo, reading the dictionary falls pitifully last on my to do list.

I haven't given up on Auragami - it's just on extended hiatus.

By way of staying involved, I did a word cloud of all my sentences -- heh, all six of 'em -- and you can find it here:

http://www.wordle.net/gallery/wrdl/334738/Auragami

Try it out -- it's kind of neat to see your words in poster form.

Friable

Etymology
Middle French, from Latin friare (to crumble)

Adjective

Easily crumbled or pulverized*

Many years had gone by but her former innocence had rendered her too friable; change had been her only means of survival.

*Webster's New Collegiate, 1981 ed

Eidolon

Etymology
Greek, eidōlon

Noun (plural -lons, -la)

An unsubstantial image, phantom; IDEAL*

She was whimsical and full of fancy once; standing again in the house that had embodied the eidolon of her most cherished childhood notions, she almost believed she could be again.

*Webster's New Collegiate, 1981 ed

Deliquesce

Etymology
Latin deliquescere

Intransitive Verb (-quesced, -quescing)

-to melt away, dissolve*

Like the snow in Spring, her days seemed to deliquesce one after another with a rapidity that astonished her.

*Websters New Collegiate, 1981 ed

Caesura

(si zhur ah)

Etymology
Latin caedere

Noun (plural caesuras, caesurae)

A break in the flow of sound in the middle of a line of verse; a pause marking a rhythmic point of division in a melody.*

The teacup at her lips, she breathed in the pungent bergamot as the welcome caesura of calm slowly spread through her limbs.

*from Webster's New Collegiate, 1981 ed

Balustrade

Etymology
Ancient Greek βαλαύστιον (balaustion)

Noun (plural balustrades)

A row of balusters topped by a rail, serving as an open parapet, as along the edge of a balcony, terrace, bridge, staircase or the eaves of a building. *

Maria ran her hand along the smooth surface of the balustrade reflecting on the effect of time and touch on it's surface.

*from wiktionary

Abaculus

Etymology
latin, diminutive of abacus.
Noun
(singular) abaculus
(plural) abaculi

-(archaic) A small tile of glass, marble, or other substance, of various colors, used in making ornamental patterns in mosaic pavements. - Fairholt*

*from wiktionary entry

I would like to have an entire mosaic patio, inlaid with many-colored abaculi.