I have often seen the word peruse in business correspondence and it was always meant as >read over carefully< also.

A bit of clarification, can you explain enantiodromic.

I have found entantio- : a learned borrowing from Greek meaning "opposite" used in the formulation of compound words AND enantiosis: a figure of speech in which what is meant is the opposite of what is said; irony.

-dromia and dromic I did not find at all.

side note...dag tsuwm, I have to keep a dictionary by my side whenever I read your posts. I don't feel ignorant by any stretch as I have often been told that my grasp of the English language is better than most however, I do feel less learned than you are in this area. Just to allay my curiosity, do you talk like you write? Are there little tsuwmlets or a lady tsuwm running around that write like you?