N Is For Nefarious

"What word best describes you?" I hate that question, if that's not straight from Miss America I don't know what is. I have been asked that in I don't know how many English classes. I had to do this "project" (that's the best thing I can think to call it) in 10th grade where I had to find an interesting word that describes me to go with each letter of my name. When the teacher first told us about it she asked that question. "What word best describes you?" Of course she asked me. I wanted to say, "Uncertain, right now, but I'll get back to you on that once I've had time to think about it." Instead I said, "Uh, nice." Because my name starts with and "N" and that was the first thing that popped into my head. It wasn't very good but it was better than "uncertain" considering I don't have a "U" in my name. She told me I could do better than that so I had to come up with a different one so I said, "Nefarious." She looked at me for a second and said, "I'm sure that's not true." I was very well aware that nefarious means "extremely wicked". It's not true, I'm not extremely wicked but it was a more complex word than "nice" and she didn't ask me to come up with another one. To this day I think she didn't believe I knew what it meant because none of the other people in the class did and either she didn't want to point that out or she just didn't care because she didn't try to explain it. It was probably one of those things she wanted me to look up myself.