sun-der

verb :: To disunite in almost any manner, either by rending, cutting, or breaking; to part; to put or keep apart; to separate; to divide; to sever

To part; to separate.

A separation into parts; a division or severance.

To expose to the sun and wind.


"Notwithstanding terrifically wide sweep (some thirty feet or more) and the its hissing vigor of its descent, sufficient to sunder these very walls of iron, still the fraying of my robe would be all that, for several minutes, it would accomplish." -- Poe, Edgar Allan

clo-ture

noun :: A parliamentary procedure by which debate is ended and an immediate vote is taken on the matter under discussion.

"It could have gone on forever if congress had not called for a cloture."

a-nath-e-ma

noun :: A ban or curse pronounced with religious solemnity by ecclesiastical authority, and accompanied by excommunication. Hence: Denunciation of anything as accursed.

noun :: An imprecation; a curse; a malediction.

noun :: Any person or thing anathematized, or cursed by ecclesiastical authority.

"...the sound of a witch's anathemas in some unknown tongue" --Nathaniel Hawthorne.

vi-ra-go

noun :: A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage; a woman who has the robust body and masculine mind of a man; a female warrior.

noun :: Hence, a mannish woman; a bold, turbulent woman; a termagant; a vixen.

"His own woman was of the party--a veritable giantess, a virago of the first magnitude--and she was evidently the only thing in the world of which Usanga stood in awe." -- Burroughs, Edgar Rice

mel-lif-lu-ous

adj. :: Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly

"...polite and cordial, with a mellifluous, well-educated voice" -- H.W. Crocker III.