A vocabulary cabinet of curiosities

The Museum of
Five Peculiar Words

Five doors. Five scenes. Five exact words waiting to be rescued from that hazy region where you’re certain you’ve seen them before.

An illustrated museum corridor with five fantastical doorways

Choose any numbered door. The exhibits are best understood from inside.

diaphanouslight enough to let the world shimmer through
hermeticsealed against entry, escape, or outside influence
liminalbelonging to a threshold or in-between state
sardonicgrimly, scornfully, or cynically mocking
fabulista maker of fables, with facts occasionally left unsupervised

This little museum was inspired by Jon’s “Five definitions: diaphanous, hermetic, liminal, sardonic, fabulist”.