Pernicious

In Rhetoric class on Thursday night, we read a couple of very eloquent essays which were very hard to understand. However, one word jumped out at me in the second one. That word was "pernicious." I was like, woah! That's like my name! The difference between my name and this word, though, is that the word means some very not nice things. The definition, when I looked it up, said things like "causing insidious harm or ruin" "injurous" "hurtful" "deadly" and "fatal." So while I found a word that seemed pretty cool because it's root was my name, I don't think I am particularly fond of the word. I really don't think I go around causing harm or ruin, I'm a nice person! It was funny though, to see a word that looked like my name, considering my name comes from a fantasy book series. That was my amusement for the night.