Wednesday, April 9th, 2008
Learn-A-Word Wednesday: perfervid \puhr-FUR-vid\
adjective:
Ardent; impassioned; marked by exaggerated or overwrought emotion.
Or under the button-down exterior of a familiar Westchester suburbanite was there a giant cockroach eager to mud-wrestle a man in black? Or was this merely a quirk of Miss Polk’s perfervid imagination?
— Mel Gussow, “Novelist Fires Off Opening of [...]









