Word of the Day — February 4, 2013

pernicious - pur-NIH-shus - destructive, harmful, deadly psilocybin - sil-OH-sih-bin - a hallucinogenic alkaloid found in some toadstools

Example: "A review on 'Warm Bodies' states that scriptwriter Levine 'tries to have it both ways: the zombie/hero is already a good guy, who has never surrendered to pernicious zombie culture, AND he is transformed by the psilocybin-like effects of eating Julie's boyfriend's brain and inheriting his consciousness and falling in love with her by proxy.'"