Glamorous P.39
Adj.
Having an air of allure, romance and excitement – charming
Book: it is hardly glamorous the way Mummy and I quarrel now that Dad is gone.
Stagger P.30
V.
Walk as if unable to control one's movements
Book: I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony.
Recuperate P.32
V.
Regain a former condition after a financial loss.
Book: Mummy took me home to Vermont to recuperate.
Villainous P.32
Adj.
A villainous person is very bad and willing to harm other people or break the law in order to get what he or she wants.
Book: they always look villainous in the dark of the evening.
Heroine. 39
N.
The main good female character in a work of fiction
Book: When she’s there, her pale skin and watery eyes make her look glamorously tragic, like a literary heroine wasting from consumption.
Agony 30
Adj.
Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
Book: I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony.
Ivory 28
Adj.
A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
Book: inside, it is full of original New York cartoons, family photos, embroidered pillows, small statues, ivory paperweights, taxidermied fish on plaques.
shore 32 n.
the land along the edge of a body of water
Book: There are big rocks in off the shore, craggy and black.
hilariously p31
Adv. marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
Book: covertly, hilariously, behind Granddad’s black while he drove the motorboat.
stunning p27
Adj. strikingly beautiful or attractive
She was a stunning woman, even when she was old.
pitiful p36
Adj.
inspiring mixed contempt and pity
Different from my pitiful voice messages, these were charming, darling notes from a person without headaches.
collapse vt. an abrupt failure of function or health
12“I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony, hoping no one in the family would notice.”
Giddy vt. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
11“Johnny, Mirren, Gat, and I snuck glasses of wine and felt giddy and silly.”
embroidered adj adorned with embroidery
11“Inside, it is full of original New Yorker cartoons, family photos, embroidered pillows, small statues, ivory paperweights, taxidermied fish on plaques.”
Surpasses
V. distinguish oneself
16“Eventually she surpasses her employer in skill and her food is known throughout the land”
(n.)Taxidermy: the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance
11“Inside, it is full of original New Yorker cartoons, family photos, embroidered pillows, small statues, ivory paperweights, taxidermied fish on plaques.”
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Quarrel: an angry dispute
15“It is hardly glamorous the way Mummy and I quarrel now that Dad is gone.”
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Constellation: an arrangement of parts or elements
8“I was glad Gat didn’t try to sound knowledgeable about constellations or say stupid stuff about wishing on stars.”
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Snorkeling: skin diving with a snorkel
11“WHEN I WASN’T bleeding, and when Mirren and Johnny were snorkeling or wrangling the littles, or when everyone lay on couches watching movies on the Clairmont flat-screen, Gat and I hid away.”
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Stagger: an unsteady uneven gait
11“I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony, hoping no one in the family would notice. Especially not Mummy.”
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Traumatic: of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body
13“Migraine headaches caused by traumatic brain injury.”
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infectious adj caused by infection or capable of causing infection
collapse vt. an abrupt failure of function or health
Giddy vt. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
embroidered adj adorned with embroidery
16“Eventually she surpasses her employer in skill and her food is known throughout the land”
12“I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony, hoping no one in the family would notice.”
11“Johnny, Mirren, Gat, and I snuck glasses of wine and felt giddy and silly.”
11“Inside, it is full of original New Yorker cartoons, family photos, embroidered pillows, small statues, ivory paperweights, taxidermied fish on plaques.”
Glamorous P.39
Adj.
Having an air of allure, romance and excitement – charming
Book: it is hardly glamorous the way Mummy and I quarrel now that Dad is gone.
Stagger P.30
V.
Walk as if unable to control one's movements
Book: I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony.
Recuperate P.32
V.
Regain a former condition after a financial loss.
Book: Mummy took me home to Vermont to recuperate.
Villainous P.32
Adj.
A villainous person is very bad and willing to harm other people or break the law in order to get what he or she wants.
Book: they always look villainous in the dark of the evening.
Heroine. 39
N.
The main good female character in a work of fiction
Book: When she’s there, her pale skin and watery eyes make her look glamorously tragic, like a literary heroine wasting from consumption.
Agony 30
N.
Intense feelings of suffering; acute mental or physical pain
Book: I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony.
Ivory 28
Adj.
A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
Book: inside, it is full of original New York cartoons, family photos, embroidered pillows, small statues, ivory paperweights, taxidermied fish on plaques.
shore 32 n.
the land along the edge of a body of water
Book: There are big rocks in off the shore, craggy and black.
hilariously p31
Adv. marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter
Book: covertly, hilariously, behind Granddad’s black while he drove the motorboat.
stunning p27
Adj. strikingly beautiful or attractive
She was a stunning woman, even when she was old.
pitiful p36
Adj.
inspiring mixed contempt and pity
Different from my pitiful voice messages, these were charming, darling notes from a person without headaches.
collapse vt. an abrupt failure of function or health
12“I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony, hoping no one in the family would notice.”
Giddy adj. having or causing a whirling sensation; liable to falling
11“Johnny, Mirren, Gat, and I snuck glasses of wine and felt giddy and silly.”
embroidered adj adorned with embroidery
11“Inside, it is full of original New Yorker cartoons, family photos, embroidered pillows, small statues, ivory paperweights, taxidermied fish on plaques.”
Surpasses
V. distinguish oneself
16“Eventually she surpasses her employer in skill and her food is known throughout the land”
(n.)Taxidermy: the art of mounting the skins of animals so that they have lifelike appearance
11“Inside, it is full of original New Yorker cartoons, family photos, embroidered pillows, small statues, ivory paperweights, taxidermied fish on plaques.”
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Quarrel: an angry dispute
15“It is hardly glamorous the way Mummy and I quarrel now that Dad is gone.”
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Constellation: an arrangement of parts or elements
8“I was glad Gat didn’t try to sound knowledgeable about constellations or say stupid stuff about wishing on stars.”
Page 21
Snorkeling: skin diving with a snorkel
11“WHEN I WASN’T bleeding, and when Mirren and Johnny were snorkeling or wrangling the littles, or when everyone lay on couches watching movies on the Clairmont flat-screen, Gat and I hid away.”
Page 30
Stagger: an unsteady uneven gait
11“I’d stagger from the table or collapse in quiet shameful agony, hoping no one in the family would notice. Especially not Mummy.”
Page 30
Traumatic: of or relating to a physical injury or wound to the body
13“Migraine headaches caused by traumatic brain injury.”
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