redivivus

\red-uh-VY-vuhs; -VEE-\, adjective:
Living again; brought back to life; revived; restored.

Mr. and Mrs. Barrington, your son is like Liberace redivivus. Oh no, not in the musical sense. Just that he's really really gay.

littoral

\LIH-tuh-rul\, adjective:
1. Of, relating to, or on a coastal or shore region, especially a seashore.

No, I said, "The sailboat of my heart drifts littorally on the banks of your love." Not literally! I'm a poet, I can't afford a yacht! Hello? Hello, Gladys?. DAMN THIS HIGHFALUTIN' VOCABULARY!

descry

\dih-SKRY\, transitive verb:
To discover by observation; to detect.

Do mine eyes deceive me or do I descry thine foot venturing up my ass?

chary

\CHAIR-ee\, adjective:
Not giving or expending freely; sparing.

Now that the apocalypse has occurred and all the chocolate factories are shut down, people are forced to be chary with Halloween candy. A rule of "One-M&M-per-child" is officially enstated.

cavil

\KAV-uhl\, noun:
1. A trivial or frivolous objection.

The judge raised his gavels at my cavils. Why he needed more than one gavel, I'll never know...

sapient

\SAY-pee-uhnt\, adjective:
Wise; sage; discerning.

"...me go peepee in your coke." Ah yes, the sapient words of Hu Flung Doo.

nimbus

\NIM-buhs\, noun:
1. A cloud or atmosphere (as of romance or glamour) that surrounds a person or thing.

--I opened the door and there she was, covered in a robe, ensconced in an Aphrodite-esque nimbus. That is, until she shut off the humidifier.

2. (Meteorology) A rain cloud.

--Son, when I named you "Nimbus" I didn't know you'd be the dark spot in my life as well as others'. I feel partially responsible.

spry

\SPRY\, adjective:
Nimble; lively; active; brisk; vigorous.

--Your daughter's quite spry for an albino.

--Check out this awesome review for Mrs. Doubtfire II! " Robin Williams is spryer than the even the spryest moments an infamously spry career."

exemplar

\ig-ZEM-plar; -pluhr\, noun:
A model or pattern to be copied or imitated.

--No no, I didn't say Stallin was a MORAL exemplar. I said he was a MURAL exemplar. Horrible horrible man , but the guy sure knew how to paint a 10- foot-tall unicorn.

--Some think it ironic that failed disc jockey Exemplar Jones' sister, You-Should-Emulate-Someone-Else-Besides-Me Jones, hit it big in the real estate business.

asperity

\as-PAIR-uh-tee\, noun:
Roughness of surface; unevenness.

--Compared to the clouds that the Carebears were used to sleeping on, the relative asperity of the Passaic Marriott's cotton bedsheets was literally UNBEARABLE.

--Though undetectable to the untrained eye, Grandpa Wilhelm's back had a subtle asperity to it.

limpid

\LIM-pid\, adjective:
1. Characterized by clearness or transparency; clear; as, "a limpid stream."

--Sir Walter Raleigh's motives were as limpid as urine from a fresh water trout, assuming of course that said trout had drank nothing but fresh water that morning, or maybe vodka...

2. Calm; untroubled; serene.

--The stoic nimbus clouds, the stolid mountains, the silent hush of the surrounding redwoods; yes, perhaps the only thing that kept this Andalusian forest from being the most limpid place on earth, was the constantly-shrieking Antelope of Almeria.