loathe
to hate
“Pick up some bread at the store, okay?” she asked.
“No, I’ll buy tortillas,” he replied. “You know I loathe loaves!”
lugubrious
mournful or sad
When Lou the undertaker’s friends died, he was too lugubrious to bury them.
Finally, they got so tired of waiting to be buried that they came back to life and
said, “Lou, go bury us.”
An Open and Frank Note from the Authors
You’re probably looking forward to a great story. Well, you won’t find one here,
but not because we were too lazy and languid. We actually did write a pretty
lively one, but instead of lauding it, the editor loathed it. After she read it, she
lambasted us with lethal cans of lima beans (we suspect they were obtained
through larceny). This made us a bit lugubrious, but we were willing to come up
with a new story. But when she laconically called us “limacine idiots,” we left,
suddenly overcome by our latent lethargy and languor. So, in protest, we didn’t
do an L story. Humblest apologies. We hope you’ll forgive us.
M
macabre
gross; ghastly; suggestive of horrible death and decay
“This macabre story is about a psychotic farmer who chokes people with corn on
the cob.”
The root “mal-” means “bad.” The next few words all begin with “mal-”:
malaise
a feeling of illness or depression
After I ate the jar of mayonnaise, I had a feeling of malaise that made me lazy.
malice
the desire to do bad to others; spite