Word of the Day from Dec 2003, Can you create a masterpiece? Options

[Cleo_Serapis]

Below are the words of the day from Dictionary.com from Dec, 2003.

Your mission and challenge:
Take five to ten words and create a poem, prose or story response with them.

Good luck!  
~Cleo  


tutelary: guardian; protecting.

arcane: understood or known by only a few.

rusticate: to go or send to the country.

fractious: tending to cause trouble; also, irritable.

stanch: to stop the flowing of; to check.

furtive: obtained or characterized by stealth; sly; secret; stealthy.

Elysium: paradise.

otiose: ineffective; also, being at leisure; also, of no use.

plangent: beating with a loud or deep sound; also, expressing sadness.

malcontent: one who is discontented or dissatisfied.

gallimaufry: a hodgepodge.

meretricious: tawdry.

solace: comfort in grief.

admonition: gentle or friendly reproof; friendly warning.

interregnum: the interval between two reigns; also, any breach of continuity in an order.

velleity: a slight wish or inclination.

derogate: to deviate from expectation; also, to detract; also, to disparage.

mazy: resembling a maze; intricate or confusing.

pablum: something (as writing or speech) that is trite, insipid, or simplistic.

wag: a humorous person; a wit.

eremite: a hermit.

pertinacious: holding obstinately to a belief, purpose, or design; also, stubbornly persistent.

Hobson's choice: a choice without an alternative.

luminary: any body that gives light; also, a person of eminence or brilliant achievement.

benefaction: the act of conferring a benefit; also, a benefit conferred.

superannuated: old; discharged or disqualified on account of old age.

expunge: to strike out or erase; to obliterate.

fustian: pompous or pretentious language.

dissimulate: to hide under a false appearance; also, to feign or pretend.

stripling: an adolescent youth.

terminus: the end of a transportation line or route; any finishing point.