365 Project - Cakewalk

Those first time parents who consider bringing up their children will be a cakewalk through observation of others' failures, will learn firsthand that they were grossly mistaken.

365 Project - Haptic

Users of braille have honed their haptic skills to a consummate degree, such that they become totally reliant on understanding the world around them through touch instead of sight.

365 Project - Couvade

Dictionary.com definition: couvade \koo-VAHD\, noun: A practice in certain cultures in which the husband of a woman in labor takes to his bed as though he were bearing the child.

365 Project - Heliolatry

Religious worship aside, modern heliolatry where men and women roast their often naked skin in its rays has proven to have its own inherent curse – skin cancer.

365 Project - Rococo

Dictionary.com definition: Pertaining to a style of painting developed simultaneously with the rococo in architecture and decoration, characterized chiefly by smallness of scale, delicacy of color, freedom of brushwork, and the selection of playful subjects as thematic material.A style of architecture and decoration, originating in France about 1720, evolved from Baroque types and distinguished by its elegant refinement in using different materials for a delicate overall effect and by its ornament of shellwork, foliage, etcIn the manner of, or suggested by rococo architecture, decoration, or music or the general atmosphere and spirit of the rococo.

365 Project - Proliferate

The landscape was gradually afflicted by the stream of box-shaped houses that began to proliferate and obliterate its once green and rolling outlook.

365 Project - Amok

I watched in rage as the rogue chicken ran amok in my freshly planted vegetable patch; she was oblivious to the dying seedlings and searching only for the tasty wriggling worms that had made their home in the wonderfully composted beds.

365 Project - Hegira

We began the gargantuan task of sifting and packing 20 years of accumulated 'wealth', ignoring the tugging of heart strings, in preparation for our hegira to a foreign land across the sea.

365 Project - Oscitant

I am sure cat-walk models practise an oscitant gaze many times a day in the mirror to make all observers feel distinctly inferior and unworthy of their attention.

365 Project - Indemnity

He looked for indemnity in the wrong place - his long-suffering wife was not supplying an alibi for his traiterous actions.

365 Project - Festoon

I could not wait for the herald of spring; the late wattle would festoon the air with its heavy scent and the trees with golden blossoms.

365 Project - Quintessential

The nurse in charge was the quintessential matron; starched cap over a severely caught up hairdo, and equally crisp apron, impeccably uncreased dress, perfectly white shoes and a manner to match it.

365 Project - Vernacular

My son told me in his own inimitable vernacular, that I should leave his room and shut the door.

365 Project - Juggernaut

The juggernaut that is the theory of evolution, stifles any hope that there is any hope for mankind's sorry plight.

365 Project - Kowtow

I remember Margaret Thatcher best for her policy that recommended the government should never kowtow to terrorists.

365 Project - Ruth

He hung his head in ruth for the horrendous misdeeds he had perpetrated during his long and turbulent life, realisation dawning for the first time only when faced with his own imminent decease.

365 Project - Noctivagant

I latched the cabin door, worried my noctivagant mother-in-law would sleep-walk over the side of the ship while we all slept.

365 Project - Occidental

Occidental meets Oriental - Plato meets Confucius - I wonder if they would agree on most philosophical theories.

365 Project - Fathom

If we could fathom the depths of each others' cultures and belief systems, would there be less war in the world?

365 Project - Bathos

Nothing makes me feel more like throwing something at the screen than a finale reeking of bathos and inconsistency.

365 Project - Penumbra

The shadow following her appeared as a penumbra each time she looked directly back to see who or what was behind her; it was only by looking in its general vicinity that she could make out the shape of a person.

365 Project - Manichean

Her Manichean philosophy prevented her from taking care of either her own body or the things which she owned out of a bare necessity; an outlook shared by many of gnostic persuasion.

365 Project - Swain

Depend upon it - the true female person does - secretly or indeed openly - cherish a wish that a gallant swain would sweep her away from the thralls of common life.

365 Project - Goad

A message to the chef that you are not pleased with your meal does not spur him to improve on his culinary skill, and serves only as a goad to spit in your food!

365 Project - Oleaginous

The cards showed a full house, but I am certain the oleaginous stranger was dealt an entirely different hand. Who cheated who?