Languid

"If someone mentions the Cottages today, I think of the easy-going days drifting in and out of each other's rooms, the languid way the afternoon would fold into the evening then into night" (119) 

Definition: (adj) displaying or having a disinclination for physical exertion or effort; slow and relaxed. 

DAUNTED

"Even Ruth looked daunted that sunny day the minibus dropped us in front of the farmhouse" (118)

Daunted- to make (someone) feel intimidated or apprehensive

(THIS DOESN'T INTIMIDATE OUR CLASS BECAUSE WE WILL NOT GIVE UP WHEN SOMETHING GETS DIFFICULT!) We will not be daunted by the work we have to do. 

Metronome (228)

"Nothing looked the same, but surely his state of mind could account for the difference, the tiny metronome of panic now ticking within him."

Definition: (noun) a mechanical or electrical instrument that makes repeated clicking sounds at an adjustable pace, used for marking rhythm.

Malapropism (24)

Definition: the mistaken use of a word in place of a similar-sounding one, often with unintentionally amusing effect 

"Bennie told himself this was nuts, yet was moved by an urge to confess the malapropism to his fourth grader" (24) 

Rebecca VAP

Coroner

Rhododendrons

Torrent

Chit

Crepuscular

Mullioned

Rebuffed

Inviolate

Sepulcher

Insidious

Ennui

Gaucherie

Provocation

Colonnade

Coroner - pg. 319

"...the coroner may put his questions in a different way."










The coroner decided whether or not the girl that had been unconscious in the hospital for two months was indeed dead.

Rhododemdrons

page 160 "the car too, drawn up behind the rhododendrons"

The rhododendrons look the prettiest in the spring.
(I like them a lot actually)