Delicious New Words

I picked up a handful of new words in a really interesting read over the past two weeks - The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd.  Here's what I nabbed ... in words AND a few delicious phrases/quotes I wanted to keep as well.  Favorite words got lucky enough to be in bold and defined here for your reading pleasure. :D

• intermezzo
• cerise - deep to vivid reddish pink
• umbrage - offense or annoyance; shade or shadow - especially as cast by trees
• ovoid
• jib
• shilly-shally - indecisive behavior
• privet
• mulattoes
• exigency - urgent need or demand
• grog
• scuppernongs
• trenchant
• pilloried - to attack or ridicule publicly
• elegiac - having a mournful quality, especially a work of art
• fleabane
• armature
• rheumy - watery

• There was so much in the world to be had and not had.
• The ache of mis-belonging
• There's a frightful muteness that swells at the center of all unspeakable things, and I had found my way into it.
• ... fast as I could, fast at the earth would pass beneath me.
• ... and I hated being a slave worse than being dead.  The hate I felt for it glittered so full of beauty I sank down on the floor before it.
• The phantom of what might have been, the terrible allure of it could still snatch me.