Wednesday Wordplay - Haikus

There seems to come a time in the life of every blog when haiku is employed. For the Full Circle, that time is now.

This week's Wednesday Wordplay: definitions in Haiku.

You have skinny toes

and skinny fingers. You are
Leptodactylous.

Remuneration -
Something that pays an equal
Amount for; Fair pay.

Perspicuity:
Clearness and Lucidity.
Simple enough, right?

Extemporane--
--ous. Damn! Too many sylla--
--bles. Damn! Did it a--

(Oh, yeah, by the way
Extemporaneous means
Spur-of-the-moment.)

A malingerer
Calls in sick even if he's
perfectly healthy.

Look at all of these
diff'rent elements! A Nice
agglomeration.

Hey! Olivier!
Read these haikus to yourself -
No histrionics!

Benedict Arnold
The most famous disloyal,
Perfidious man.

A powerful storm
that sucks things to its middle
is called a maelstrom.

Supercilious:
Patronizingly haughty
expressing contempt.

Lackadaisical
don't know the meaning? Don't be
lazy - look it up!