virago \vuh-RAH-go; vuh-RAY-go\, noun:
1. A woman of extraordinary stature, strength, and courage.
2. A woman regarded as loud, scolding, ill-tempered, quarrelsome, or overbearing.

Virago comes from Latin virago, "a man-like woman, a female warrior, a heroine" from vir, "a man."

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mawkish \MOCK-ish\, adjective:
1. Sickly or excessively sentimental.
2. Insipid in taste; nauseous; disgusting.

"If anything happens to her, anything at all, I swear to you, I will get very choked up."

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orotund \OR-uh-tuhnd\, adjective:
1. Characterized by fullness, clarity, strength, and smoothness of sound.
2. Pompous; bombastic.

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scintilla \sin-TIL-uh\, noun:
A tiny or scarcely detectable amount; the slightest particle; a trace; a spark.

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nefarious \nuh-FERR-ee-us\, adjective:
Wicked in the extreme; abominable; iniquitous; atrociously villainous; execrable; detestably vile.

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tocsin \TOCK-sin\, noun:
1. An alarm bell, or the ringing of a bell for the purpose of alarm.
2. A warning.

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