WORDS TO THE WISE #15

"'BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE" EDITION


FILIPENDULOUS
adjective
suspended by or strung upon a single thread

ZUGZWANG
noun
a position in which any decision or move will result in problems; a situation where somebody is forced to act, but would prefer to remain passive; in chess occurs when one player is put at a disadvantage because he/she has to make a move

MULLIGRUBS
noun
a state of depression or low spirits; sullenness, sulky behavior

LALOCHEZIA
noun
the use of foul or abusive language to relieve stress or ease pain

ENANTIODROMIA
noun
the changing of something to it's opposite; the Jungian principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium

Hopefully, the next chapter of "Words to the Wise" will see it's enantiodromia.