Today I was asked to dinner by an odd character. I don't want to grouse over it but he is some what ignoble. Our mutual friend says calling him ignoble is more semantics than truth. Being invited to dinner is usually a euphony to me. Especially when it is not due to someone's general beneficence. I often appear as though I live in a state of indigence when in fact I just choose not to shop. Since my increased effort to dispel this rumor I have seen some dissolution of the pity from people I know. This has been correlated with a declivity in dinner invitations. People have also become more circumspect in commenting on my appearance; as if now that they know I choose it I might somehow be offended that it is unfashionable. I don't understand how a life of penury shelters someone from being offended at others reactions to their appearance. I have ben gestating an idea about lack of respect and poverty. It seems as though the otherness of indigence is hermetic; as if allowing it to enter society would some how poison us. The whole issue makes me livid. Why do we choose to abase people that often already have low self esteem? Why are they a transgression to the unspoken societal rules? They already live in homes with struts made of card board and are treated with such impetuousness. It makes me wonder about the duplicity of our society.
Grouse - complain or grumble
Ignoble - not honorable in character or purpose, not deserving respect.
Semantics - relating to the different meanings of words or other symbols
Euphony - pleasing or sweet sound especially the acoustic effect produced by words so formed or combined as to please the ear.
Beneficent - doing good especially acts of kindness or charity
Indigence - extreme poverty
Dissolution - process of making something slowly end or disappear
Declivity - downward slope
Circumspect - cautious, prudent; careful to consider the circumstances and consequences
Penury - extreme poverty or scarcity
Gestation - pregnancy or metaphorically to hatch and idea or plan
Hermetic - air tight, sealed, isolated, not affected by outward influence, reclusive
Livid - furiously angry or enraged
Abase - to reduce or lower, as in rank, office, reputation or esteem
Transgression - violation of law
Strut - structural support or brace
Impetuous - passionately, impulsive, marked by sudden, hasty emotion; forceful, violent
Duplicity - double dealing, acting in two different ways for the purpose of deception
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