ludicrous? irksome?

some times i happen across words in the english language, in a book, or in the course of a conversation. and it's not the words that are completely new or incomprehensible to me that are interesting here, although those pop up at intervals as well. it's the simple words that i've known for ever, but have somehow managed to blend into the background and avoid being used. words such as ludicrous or irksome.

when that happens, i pick them up. i try them out. i most definitely overuse them for a while. i guess that must be an annoying habbit if you have the misfortune of spending a lot of time with during one of these word trials, but it's something i have to do. to test them out, try them in different circumstances and various sentences. feel them from different angles and find out where exactly their boundaries lie, so that i can eventually nestle them back into my daily vocabulary where they belong.