I make this post for the Irony and the Wishful Thinking

I'd like to take a moment to point out that this whole post is in regard to the fires that have devastated California and now this post is just really ironic and odd.
Your three new words this week for you to learn and use from now on are Antediluvian, Stillicide, and Hyetal.

Antediluvian: (adj.)
Mom: Before the age of Copepods
Jessie: Resembling an item from the Elizabethan Era
Dad: A fishing knot
Kimmy: Paranoid that people don't care about your interests
Kevin: Prior to the invention of shampoo.

If you're any good with taking apart words into their roots, you may have already figured out that part of this word, Ante-, comes from the Latin word for "Before."  You might also recognize the term Diluvian, which means "Flood."  And that's true.  You may also know this word if you have read and studied Biblical stories, like that of Noah's Ark.  Yes, Antediluvian means "Before the Deluge," or, in layman's terms, "Before the Flood."
This word is often used to refer to the world before the Great Flood took place. Antediluvian Earth was a planet of grass, trees, animals, sinful humans, more animals, some more vegetation, and a lot of sin-ridden people.  But the word Antediluvian can also be a noun, in reference to any object before the destruction by water.  For example, the dinosaurs, because they were far extinct before the Flood, were Antediluvians.  Humans, at one point, were all Antediluvians. 
Now, all of us... We are all Postediluvians. (Did you like that? I made up my own word!)   We all live after the time of the Great Flood.

Stillicide: (n.)
Mom: The act of killing authors
Jessie: One of those plant killers
Dad: Drinking whiskey and you set the still to the side.
Kimmy: Slang for distilling apple cider
Kevin: Pigeon Murder

You probably saw this word and immediately thought, "Wait! -Icide! I know that root! It comes from the same word as Suicide, Pesticide, etc.!"  There's also a 100% possibility that you were wrong.  Stillicide is a very funny word in that sense. Because it has nothing to do with anything related to killing.  In fact, the word Stillicide is a Latin based word, coming from the roots Stilla and caedere. Stilla refers to a drop of something, mainly water.  Caedere comes from the verb meaning To Fall.  The combination of the two, Stillicide, literally means "Falling Water."  I guess that works as a definition, but the real phrase means something more than that. Let me paint you a picture. Close your eyes. (And read this at the same time):

   You sit in your room waiting for this terrible drought to end. As you look out the window, you see storm clouds a'brewing. You gasp. It starts to bucket down rain as it approaches your house.  You start to hear the pitter-patter of rain on your roof as you watch it trickling down your window. You close your eyes and listen to the rain overflow the gutters.  Yes. Listen to that Stillicide.

Wow. That was refreshing. Think of how calm you are... Now, think about the fact that we unfortunately never use this word. WHY IS THAT?! Is it because we don't have a time to ever use it? Poet Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) would like to disagree. He made an effort to use many uncommon words in his poems. For example, in his beautiful poem Friends Beyond, he writes:

In the muted, measured note 

Of a ripple under archways, or a lone cave’s stillicide

I highly suggest this poem. It's amazing.

Hyetal: (adj.)
Mom: A bone found in the throat
Jessie: Like the screeching noise an old woman makes when her cat is stuck in the tree, like a hyena
Dad: A nymph fly, used in the morning to match the morning hatch.  (3 guesses as to who the fisherman is in the family...)
Kimmy: Hungry for one's own child
Kevin: Fashionably destructive.

Hyetal. Now there's a word I could get used to saying.  Pronounced Hi-ET-al, this word is simply a substitute for the word Rainy. But this word is basically never used!  In fact, the last time it was recorded in the Oxford Dictionary was in 1864. 150 years ago. So there's basically no background information on it...
The word Hyetal comes from the Greek word Huetos or Hyei.  Huetos is the noun, "Rain" while Hyei means "It is raining."  Other words using these roots include a Hyetal Chart, Heitology, and Heitograph. 

Also, if you're looking for another word meaning Rainy, I suggest the word Pluviose. It's a cool word.