Connotations

So this is a fun one...choose a couple of words that you think have strong connotative value. Give us the words, the denotation, and explain the connotations, including associations you yourself have with the words. Also, please comment on other people's choices of words...what associations do you have with the words they selected?

I'll go first...you all know ennui now, so I'll do crepuscular, denotation twilight. However, this word, partially because of its French origin, has a sense of faded grandeur or decline about it...if I was using it to actually describe a time of day, it would have to be the end of a golden, perfect day that is drawing to a quiet grey close. If we were in a crepuscular phase in our relationship, it would be something great that now has faded....When I first heard it, I thought it had something to do with blood, so I always think of it as a deep, internal fading..