Divulge

"What a juicy word that is, ‘divulge.’ Truth opening its petals."

Paul Chowder, the main character in The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker, is a poet who is supposed to be writing an introduction to a volume of poetry. I haven't read this novel, but while skimming what Olduvai wrote in her review, I found that Paul Chowder considers the word "divulge" to be a "juicy word" and knew it belonged here among my other words. Olduvai says Chowder is a procrastinator, an overthinker, who says things like this:

"What is poetry? Poetry is prose in slow motion. Now, that isn’t true of rhymed poems. It’s not true of Sir Walter Scott. It’s not true of Longfellow, or Tennyson, or Swinburne, or Yeats. Rhymed poems are different. But the kind of free-verse poems that most poets write now – the kind that I write – is slow-motion prose. ... Obviously I’m up in a barn again – which sounds like a country song, except for the word ‘obviously.’ I wonder how often the word ‘obviously’ has been used in a country song. Probably not much, but I hardly listen to country, although some of the folk music I like has a strong country tincture."

Sounds to me like this Paul Chowder character divulges too much without actually getting anywhere.