Thoughts on a Thursday...

Here's a word I picked because it was so interesting I couldn't imagine how you could pronounce it! Then it was a bonus that the sentence is from a novel...

phthisis \THAHY-sis\  , noun:
1. A wasting away.
2. Pulmonary tuberculosis; consumption.

At last Sister Hyacinthe began to speak of the immediate and complete cures ofphthisis, and this was the triumph, the healing of that terrible disease which ravages humanity…
-- Robert Hugh Benson, Lourdes

Apoplexy is no longer to be feared, but phthisis is there. Social phthisis is called misery.
-- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables