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extol: to praise (verb)
The awards ceremony had gone on longer than any sane person could have wished. The food had been surprisingly edible, and the company at my table had been congenial, but the length of the award presentation had been interminable. Our MC for the evening, the mayor of Castleton, had felt the [...]

pusillanimous: cowardly (adj)
Jeremy struggled against the tide, feeling the undertow pull at him, wanting to drag him down to the bottom of the sea. The sea wanted to conquer him; make him know who was king and victor in a realm he dared to invade. Jeremy was made of sterner stuff, however, and would [...]

detritus: debris (noun)
The war was over and Emily sat down on the edge of the steps that led up to the capital building, a place that she once thought of as a silent sentry that would guard the city as a protector. The building no longer stood complete and was instead smoking charred detritus [...]

scintilla: a tiny amount; a trace; a spark (noun)
euphonious: pleasing or sweet in sound (adj)
matutinal: relating to or occurring in the morning; early (adj)

I wake to a less than euphonious alarm clock, in the matutinal portion of the day. I make my way out of bed to start my daily regimen of showering, preparing [...]