Friable Sodality Apotheosis

Easily crumbled or reduced to powder

Fellowship, comradeship

Exaltation to divine rank or stature; deification

Those are three words I looked up today. I've come across them before but they slipped out of my head. The places they occupied though remained unfilled, as though waiting for a gentle nudge from a book or a magazine to remind me that the memory of the words remained and that I had to find and reunite them with their lost meanings.

I wish I had a dictionary. A big, fat, unabridged one that I could keep by my side while I read. Everytime I come across a word I don't know I have to make a mental note of it and the next time I'm online remember to log on to dictionary. com. And half the time, my memory fails me and I log on and wonder what I'd wanted to look up.

I read somewhere, of a woman who kept a dictionary in her bathroom. The idea captivated me. I'd love to have, instead of the usual assortment of magazines, a swollen lexicon in my lavatory. So that every morning while fighting off sleep on the pot, I could browse bleary eyed through a waterlogged book and add another gem to my collection.