vocab "and now..."

Here are some words or phrases from the text which are, in my opinion, worth learning:

exuberant: happy and full of energy and excitement (überschwenglich)
He is an energetic and exuberant person.
She needs to try and control her natural exuberance.

embellish: to make something more beautiful by adding decorations to it
My sister couldn't help embellishing the story.
She wore a beautiful dress embellished with golden stripes.

to fragment/fragmentation: to break something, or be broken into a lot of small separate parts
The more English spreads, the more it diversifies, the more it could tned towards fragmentation.

hold sway: to have a lot of influence or power
Just as Latin, which once held sway over a great linguistic empire, split into French, Italien, Spanish portuguese and Romanian.
Our traditions in Austria still hold sway.

ponderous: - slow or awkward because of being very big and heavy (schwerfällig)
an elephant's ponderous walk
- boring, very serious, and seeming to progress very slowly
The system, though ponderous, works.