pic⋅ture [pik-cher]

noun, verb, -tured, -tur⋅ing. –noun

1. A visual representation or image painted, drawn, photographed, or otherwise rendered on a flat surface.
2. A visible image, especially one on a flat surface or screen: the picture reflected in the lake; focused the picture on the movie screen.
3. a. A vivid or realistic verbal description: a Shakespearean picture of guilt.b. A vivid mental image.
4. A person or object bearing a marked resemblance to another: She's the picture of her mother.
5. A person, object, or scene that typifies or embodies an emotion, state of mind, or mood: Your face was the very picture of horror.
6. The chief circumstances of an event or time; a situation.
7. A movie.
8. A tableau vivant.

-- pic·tured, pic·tur·ing, pic·tures
1. To make a visible representation of.
2. To form a mental image of; visualize.
3. To describe vividly in words; make a verbal picture of

If a picture paints a thousand words, then why can't I paint you?

quix⋅ot⋅ic   /kwɪkˈsɒtɪk/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [kwik-sot-ik]
–adjective

1.	(sometimes initial capital letter) resembling or befitting Don Quixote.

2.	extravagantly chivalrous or romantic; visionary, impractical, or impracticable.

3.	impulsive and often rashly unpredictable.

He is quixotic in a way with which I am unfamiliar, causing my thoughts to wave and crash about the sea.

Shan. =)

light·ning /ˈlaɪtnɪŋ/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[lahyt-ning]

–noun

1.	a brilliant electric spark discharge in the atmosphere, occurring within a thundercloud, between clouds, or between a cloud and the ground.

–verb (used without object)

2.	to emit a flash or flashes of lightning (often used impersonally with it as subject): If it starts to lightning, we'd better go inside.

–adjective

3.	of, pertaining to, or resembling lightning, esp. in regard to speed of movement: lightning flashes; lightning speed.

The lightning tore into the sky, so we danced to the cadence of the thunder's rhythm.
(Cadence maybe have to be WOTD soon.)

per·snick·et·y /pərˈsnɪkɪti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[per-snik-i-tee]

–adjective Informal.

1.	overparticular; fussy.

2.	snobbish or having the aloof attitude of a snob.

3.	requiring painstaking care.

Mom, You're persnickety.

e·ter·ni·ty /ɪˈtɜrnɪti/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[i-tur-ni-tee]

–noun, plural -ties.

1.	infinite time; duration without beginning or end.

2.	eternal existence, esp. as contrasted with mortal life: the eternity of God.

3.	Theology. the timeless state into which the soul passes at a person's death.

4.	an endless or seemingly endless period of time: We had to wait an eternity for the check to arrive.

5.	eternities, the truths or realities of life and thought that are regarded as timeless or eternal.

Families can be together through the eternities.

om·i·nous /ˈɒmənəs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[om-uh-nuhs]

–adjective

1.	portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening; inauspicious: an ominous bank of dark clouds.

2.	having the significance of an omen.

The smoke coming from the hood of the car isn't as ominous as it seems.

I want to start a word of the day list. Expand my vocabulary, if you will. So every day - haha - I will have a word of the day. It will probably be one that I read recently and didn't know the definition so I had to look it up. Or maybe it will just be a word I like that day. Who knows.

This one is from my research on my paper about the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. I still don't have a specific angle. I'm in early research stages. A rough draft is due in a week. ACK!

PS I read and walk at the same time. I think it's the only way to be successful with all the reading that is required in college classes. I've only had one close encounter with a wall.

u·biq·ui·tous /yuˈbɪkwɪtəs/ Pronunciation Key - Show Spelled Pronunciation[yoo-bik-wi-tuhs]

adjective

- existing or being everywhere, esp. at the same time; omnipresent: ubiquitous fog; ubiquitous little ants.

The Soviet troops were ubiquitous, rounding up Hungarian citizens with various Russian commands.