- stultify - deprive of strength or efficiency; make useless or worthless
- sessile - permanently attached to a substrate; not free to move about
- insuperable - impossible to surmount; insurmountable
- quixotic - not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
- capricious - determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; impulsive; whimsical
- malevolent - having or exerting a malignant influence
- antipathy - a feeling of intense dislike
- indissoluble - incapable of being dissolved (in a solution)
- inexpert - lack of professional skill or expertise
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
Short story: That Thou Art Mindful of Him
My mother once played ‘quixotic’ in Scrabble against my dad… using all seven letters (and one on the board) and hitting two triple word spaces.
That was the last time my dad played Scrabble.