Random Selections From the Dictionary Series

AVERSE

To use the word averse in a sentence, "I feel averse to accept the reality of my living situation at this moment."

I do not like waking up to news copters hovering above my house. And the number of people who honk right outside my window at all hours has led to the belief that there is sign somewhere saying something to the effect of, “Honk. I dare you assholes!” There is a line around the block of garbage-bagged folk waiting to go through my neighbor’s garbage can like it’s full of chilly dogs and ice cold Coca-Cola, and not just beer bottle caps and condom wrappers. However, back to the point, I am also reminded that “averse” is the combination of the words “a” and “verse”.

Little known fact, back with in the ancient world, when the Greeks were still running around naked all the time, there was a Global Cooling crisis, which forced them to learn how to put on their clothes for the first time. To make this new task more fun they would sing a melody. A Verse, if you will.

“Tra la la”, Apalpogenous the brown-eyed beauty chirped. “Gee, I hate this putting-on-clothes business” she mumbled.” But slipped her bed sheets on one cautious wrap after another with the brave stoicism we have learned of her people. She warbled again, “Tra la la laaa. Tra la lie…”

As if she had been wrapping herself in bed sheets for years--and she kind of had been, just not vertically--with one delicate movement she slipped the end of the sheet into the nook of her armpit and she was clothed.

“I may be um, against... No. Upset? No. No, I may be AVERSE to this getting dressed thing,” she proclaimed, “but a verse sung during the interim distracts me from this deplorable act.”

Henceforth we have the word, averse.