My Prowess with Words, 4

       Now there's one more word, "enervated."  For a very long time I "knew" what that meant:  "energized"--full of the dickens!  If you were enervated, you were ready to go!  Association with "energy" in its first two syllables, as simple as that, but, well, you know, it means just the opposite, no energy, depleted of vim, vigor, and vitality, without energy.

       I'm getting enervated just thinking of my "prowess" with words.  Only a little more depletion on my part and I'll be . . . be-dridden.