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1 Word from Ever After by Kim Harrison Either I was too engrossed in the story or the novel’s vocabulary is contained within mine. I knew this word but the context it which it was used made me wonder,...
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Words from Hexed by Kevin Hearne Book 2 Iron Druid Chronicles. Potentates: Strong spirits like bootleg whiskey? potentates: noun- a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler....
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Words from Hexed by Kevin Hearnes Iron Druid Chronicles Book 2 Solipsism: Something related to sunburned lips? solipsism: noun 1. Philosophy . the theory that only the self exists, or can be...
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This Weeks Words are from: Frost Burned [Mercy Thompson Book 7] Patricia Briggs Using the highlight feature on my Kindle, I’m now including the actual sentences the words were used in. Parse: I...
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This Weeks Words are from: Frost Burned, [Mercy Thompson Book 7] Patricia Briggs obstreperous obstreperous: adjective 1.resisting control or restraint in a difficult manner; unruly. 2.noisy,...
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3 Words From One Sentence on: Page 50 Hexed by Kevin Hearne Book 2 Iron Druid Chronicle Bacchants carry around thyrsi which are staves wrapped in ivy leaves… (page 50) Bacchants: noun 1. a priest,...
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I’ve been experimenting with audiobooks. I’m finding I prefer to read books. Audiobook narrators read too slow for me so my attention drifts. I really don’t like women narrators imitating male...
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E. B. White, 1899 –1985 Elwyn Brooks White was an author and long-standing contributor for The New Yorker magazine. He’s most famous for Charlotte’s Web and Stuart Little but wrote Adult fiction,...
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Words from: Rosemary and Rue by Seanan McGuire An October Daye Novel extemporizing I was extemporizing wildly, but I had no way of knowing that. [Loc 4882-43] extemporize: verb (used without...
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