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.
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.
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.
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.”
Page 28
Quarrel: an angry dispute
15“It is hardly glamorous the way Mummy and I quarrel now that Dad is gone.”
Page 39
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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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.”
Page 28
Quarrel: an angry dispute
15“It is hardly glamorous the way Mummy and I quarrel now that Dad is gone.”
Page 39
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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