perambulate
To walk through or over; traversing.
Christ Almighty. Just think that Ted Williams is out there, one Mac n’ Cheese ad under his belt, drunk as a skunk and perambulating the streets.
acta
Record of acts, transactions, or proceedings.
The Vatican, continuing efforts to appear reformed following disclosure of its systematic cover-up of widespread child sex abuse, released a 20-page template for bishops and other senior church leaders to use to catalog future accusations…
incipient
[in-SIP-ee-uhnt]
adjective
Beginning to exist or appear.
Upon confirming our relationship status on Facebook I noticed her incipient beer belly and sagging breasts.
birr
To make, or move with, a whirring noise, as of wheels in motion.
Do you hear that birr coming from under the stove, or am I fucking nuts?
vim
Ready with great energy or spirit.
Steve was sparkling with the vim and vigor of a much younger man. He had the biting wit of a more learned man…
sapient
Possessing or expressing great wisdom or judgement.
The journeymen politicos wagged their heads with Stalinesque deference as the arena around them reverberated with Donald Trump’s sapient remarks…
castigate
/ˈkæs tɪˌgeɪt/ verb 1 a to chastise verbally. b to reprove. c to criticize severely. 2 a to punish by stripes. b to chastise by blows. c to chasten. Hannah often lauded her husband’s deft oral skill when reveling in their postcoital embrace. But later, when she was with her friends, she’d castigate him for a lack of competence both inside and outside of the bedroom.