I was reading the Gabriel García Márquez Nobel Prize-winning "One Hundred Years of Solitude" and came across a word I had never heard before: pernicious.
After visiting the American Heritage Dictionary I learned that this adjective is used to describe anything that can cause great harm or be destructive in nature. In the story it is in reference to terrible insomnia-like disease.
Not that I'm in horrible fatalistic situations on a frequent basis, but I'm going to attempt to work this word in to conversation at least once this week.
The rumor started by the cheerleader about her ex-boyfriend was pernicious to his reputation on the football team.
Sergio del Limónar
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