ablution: A washing or cleansing, especially of the body (though frequently used as metaphor in literature, religious connotation)
abrogate: To abolish, repeal (legal term)
abscond: To depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest (commonly with the property of another.)
abstemious: Characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food.
abstruse: adj, Dealing with matters difficult to be understood, esoteric, unfathomable
magniloquent: speaking or expressed in a lofty or grandiose style; pompous; bombastic; boastful.
“I don’t understand, Harold! How abstruse you are! Use simpler language, for Merriam’s sake!”
“Margot dearest, your cheeks flush with frustration and your voice warbles with ire. If I did not know any better, my impression of you would be that of an inebriate, not the abstemious, upstanding gentlewoman to whom I am most humbly betrothed.”
“You are stalling! Do not dare speak of our marriage again or of the absolutely filtered way in which you see your own manner, you magniloquent man! You hide behind backhanded flattery and abscond with my dignity every time we quarrel! I won’t have it! Not another second! Tell me immediately what I want to know… or… or I’ll… this time I’ll file for divorce!”
“You wish to submerge our vows to drown them rather than compromise with me so that they may experience instead an ablution? Lovely, effervescent bride of mine, even when you bubble over, you glisten. Especially then, I dare say.”
“Abrogation! Plain and simple! I will abrogate this marriage once and for all.”
“…”
“WELL?!”
“Follow me, dear.”
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