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)

Torrent

"Then louder and faster, a driving torrent falling slantways from the slate sky, like water from a sluice" (326) 

The quiet stream became a ranging torrent after the storm. 

Chit

After we finished eating we paid the chit and left. 

(question: can this also be used in terms of chit chat? or is that made up?) 

Chit (Talia)

This sun rays are very Crepuscular during twilight.

Mullioned (I LOVE the detail on mullioned windows btw)

These mullioned windows look very gothic. 

Rebuffed

When someone asks you to do something you dont want to

Mullioned (Talia)

Rebecca VAP so far

Inviolate (Dan
Sepulchre (Talia)
Insidious (Matt)
Rebuffed (Talia)
Ennui (Lindsey)
Goucherie (Matt)
Provocation (Talia)
Colonnade (Sophia)

The Handmaid's Tale and The Virgin Suicides VAP

The Handmaid's Tale and The Virgin Suicides VAP

Quandry (Talia)

Rigidity (Narineh)

Anestethetics (Matt)

Jocularity (Bryant)

Palimpsest (Sophia)

Totemistic (Lindsey)

Blasphemy (Matt G)

Effluvia (Lindsey)

Libidinal (Narineh)

Febrile (Talia)

Amid (Sophia)

Demarcation (Talia)

Precocious (Nick)

Clandestine (Talia)

Mundane (Matt)

Ostensible (Lindsey)

Augured (Sophia)

Obliquley (Talia)

Forlornly (Sophia)

Esoteric (Lindsey)

Crepuscular (Sophia)