help with minor mode for word highlighting

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Greetings:

In the interest of time, I'm writing asking for a little help getting  
the ball rolling on this. I've spent 3 days poking around on the  
internet and trying various approaches--but have come up short. I'm  
trying to write a very simple minor-mode for highlighting some words  
under text-mode. Here are the specifics of what would be great to see  
example code of:

-- minor-mode skeleton to run alongside text-mode/paragraph-indent- 
minor-mode
-- an example of creating a custom font-lock face for this mode
-- an example of coloring a list of words using the custom face
-- an example of coloring based on a regex

That's it, really. No functions or specified indentation. I just want  
some special coloring on top of text-mode running paragraph-indent- 
minor-mode.

Any suggestions, examples of code, or tutorial links to help  
accomplish this would be *greatly* appreciated.

Thanks!