TGWLTG pages 10-39

Hey guys! Here is the first set of vocabulary words from pages 10-39. All the definitions are taken directly from the Miriam Webster Dictionary, and are basically quoted. The sentences are taken straight from the book. The page numbers are included. You can find other sentence examples from http://www.merriam-webster.com/ .


1. Unerring- (adj.) Committing no error.
Synonyms: infallible, unfailing
"He understood with some unerring instinct that it was the one he could plant the deepest and pulled the hardest.” p. 10

2. Cataclysmically- (adv.) a) Flood, Deluge b) Catastrophe c) A momentous and violent event marked by overwhelming upheaval and demolition; broadly: an event that brings great changes.
Synonyms: alluvion, inundation, spate, torrent, cataract
“Pete sat at the table, looking cataclysmically bored.” p. 13

3. Ostentatious- (adj.) marked by or fond of conspicuous or vainglorious and sometimes pretentious display.
Synonyms: flamboyant, flashy, garish, gaudy, swank
“Mom had refused to notice is ostentatious lack of interest.” p. 13

4. Gall- (n.) a) Bile, something bitter, bitterness of spirit b) Brazen boldness coupled with imprudent assurance and insolence
Synonyms: impudence, moxie, audacity, nerve
“He even had the gall to say he should be home studying for his final exam.” p. 14

5. Indignant- (adj.) Filled with or marked by indignation (anger aroused by something unjust)
Synonyms: angered apoplectic, ballistic, enraged, fuming, incensed
“Tricia would remember the last phrase she got in the clear; her brothers hurt, indignant voice.” p. 23

6. Indecorous- (adj.) not decorous, conflicting with accepted standards of good contuct or good taste.
Synonym: amiss, graceless, inept, infelicitous, wrong
“It seemed indecorous.” p. 23

7. Dubiously- (adv.) a) giving rise to uncertainty; a doubtful promise or outcome; questionable or suspect as to true nature or quality b) unsettled in opinion
Synonym: debatable, disputable, equivocal, fishy, queer, doubtful, questionable
“When she was done she looked around dubiously for something to blot with and decided not to push [her] luck.” p. 24

8. Disquiet- (v.) to take away the peace or tranquility of; to disturb or alarm
Synonym: agitate, alarm, ail, distract, distress, dismay, perturb
“She felt the first minnowy flutter of disquiet.” p. 27

9. Sough- (v.) to make a moaning or sighing sound
Synonym: sigh
“She could hear the sough of the wind through the big old West country pine.” p. 28

10. Ascertained- (v.) a) to make certain, exact or precise b) to find out or learn with certainty
Synonym: discover, realize, learn
“She ascertained that she was still traveling in a straight line.” p. 33

11. Oppressive- (adj.) a) unreasonable burdeonsome or severe b) tyrannical c) overwhelming or depressing to the spirit or senses
Synonyms: bitter, brutal, burdensome, grim, harsh, onerous, severe
“She was suddenly drowning in isolation, choking on a bright and yet oppressive sense of self as a living being cast out from her fellows.” p. 35

12. Pram - (n.) a small lightweight nearly flat bottomed boat with a broad transom and usually squared-off bow
Synonym: cart, carriage, buggy,
“Her voice trembled, became first the wavery voice of a little kid and then almost the shriek of the babies who lies forgotten in her pram.” p. 36

I'm Baaaaaack...

Hello, fellow readers!

I am very sorry. I believe I need a reprieve. Sometimes life happens and things get ignored. This blog is a thing. This blog was ignored, but I am back! I have come up with a small list of books I might have chosen from for the month of October.
1. Anything by Poe
2. Silence of the Lambs
3. R.L. Stine did indeed write an adult horror book. I intended to seek it out and read it!
4. a book on the Salem witch trials.
5. The Poe Shadow by Matthew Pearl. An impulse buy at the college book store. It was on sale for $5.00!
6. There are three books about the torture of "Sylvia Likens": House of Evil: The Indiana Torture Slaying by Natty Bumppo; By Sanction of the Victim by Patte Wheat; and The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. One of those would be nice to read
7. Stephen King book
8. Macbeth
9. War of the Worlds
10. The Entity by Frank de Felitta
11. Bram Stoker's Dracula
12. The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

I decided on a book by Stephen King because I've never read one of his books. I wanted a book by him that might not be as popular as The Shining, for instance. I had never heard of The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon. It seemed appropriate for the time. It's a Stephen King novel that contains an underlying baseball theme. It seemed particularly fitting because I cannot seem to be able to escape Texas Ranger fever! Baseball and Halloweenie! We shall see how this turns out!

I have already started to book. I'll be posting vocabulary as I go.