impassible \im-PASS-uh-buhl\, adjective:
1. Incapable of suffering; not subject to harm or pain.
2. Unfeeling or not showing feeling.

Body is flux and frustration, a locus of pain and process.
If it becomes impassible and incorruptible, how is it still
body?
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recidivism \rih-SID-uh-viz-uhm\, noun:
A tendency to lapse into a previous condition or pattern of
behavior; especially, a falling back or relapse into prior
criminal habits.

Mr. Atrens's basic argument is that it's physiologically
almost impossible for many people to lose weight, as
evidenced by a high recidivism rate and the unflagging
profitability of diet paraphernalia, from liquid
concoctions to surgeons' staples.
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arbiter \AR-buh-tuhr\, noun:
1. A person appointed or chosen to judge or decide a dispute.
2. Any person who has the power of judging and determining.

There was no shortage of such socially knowing,
good-natured, and adaptable folk among the charter members
of the Institute, especially in its department of
literature, where a sizable number were not really literary
practitioners but instead high-quality magazine editors,
professors, and other well-settled arbiters of taste.
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leitmotif \LYT-moh-teef\, noun:
1. In music drama, a marked melodic phrase or short passage
which always accompanies the reappearance of a certain person,
situation, abstract idea, or allusion in the course of the
play; a sort of musical label.
2. A dominant and recurring theme.

Each actor to appear on stage is accompanied by a musical
phrase on the drum -- a sort of leitmotif to characterize
an emotion, much like a Wagnerian drama.
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panacea \pan-uh-SEE-uh\, noun:
A remedy for all diseases, problems, or evils; a universal
medicine; a cure-all.

He considered education "the great panacea" and insisted
that access to knowledge was the key to all social
progress.
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nebbish \NEB-ish\, noun:
A weak-willed, timid, or ineffectual person.

You used to be a nebbish, a noodle, a fool
And now you're Mr. Big Time with your own private pool
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execrable \EK-sih-kruh-buhl\, adjective:
1. Deserving to be execrated; detestable; abominable.
2. Extremely bad; of very poor quality; very inferior.

His human-rights record was abysmal. His relations with
Washington were adversarial. He rivaled Zimbabwe's
execrable Robert Mugabe for the title "Africa's Saddam."
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dilettante \DIL-uh-tont; dil-uh-TONT; dil-uh-TON-tee; -TANT;
-TAN-tee\, noun;
plural dilettantes, also dilettanti \-TON-tee; -TAN-\:
1. An amateur or dabbler; especially, one who follows an art
or a branch of knowledge sporadically, superficially, or for
amusement only.
2. An admirer or lover of the fine arts.

adjective:
Of or characteristic of a dilettante; amateurish.

As he had put it, it was a matter of principle, not money:
Mistler family trusts, over which he exercised
discretionary powers, had not been established to support
dilettantes or would-be litterateurs waiting for
inspiration.
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bedaub \bih-DOB\, transitive verb:
1. To smudge over; to besmear or soil with anything thick and
dirty.
2. To overdecorate; to ornament showily or excessively.

The patient's signature is less neat than usual, not only
because of his agitated state but also, quite possibly,
because the pen is so bedaubed with chocolate that it slips
through his fingers.
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The act or product of thinking; the use of the power of
reason; mental activity; thought.

Generally, to the 2 1/2-year-old apple of her parents' eye,
who bravely negotiates her ABC's, the recitation must seem,
if anything other than pure nonsense, more like a physical
task -- like rafting a river or running a steeplechase --
than cerebration.