Word: Wail
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: A prolonged high-pitched cry of pain, anger, or grief Example: And then the baby, our first child, Dylan, let out a wail like you’ve never heard before.
Word: Preemie
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: A baby born prematurely Example: The preemies who come out limp often have the most trouble.
Word: Dissonant
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Lacking harmony Example: At Magee, they did a wonderful job of simultaneously communicating two dissonant things.
Word: Bassinet
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: A baby’s wicker-cradle usually with a hood Example: One day, we arrived at the hospital, and Dylan’s bassinett was gone.
Word: Gasp
Parts of Speech: Verb Meaning: Inhale suddenly with the mouth open, out of pain, or astonishment. Example: I was gasping out fear in staccato.
Word: Shrug
Parts of Speech: Verb Meaning: Raise one’s shoulder slightly and momentarily to express doubt, ignorance, or indifference. Example: I just shrugged, and I could see that for Jai, an entire day’s worth of anxiety was just melting away.
Word: Gash
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: A long deep slash, cut, or wound. Example: We would just live with dents and gashes.
Word: Placenta
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: A flattened circular organ in the uterus of pregnant eutherian mammals, nourishing and maintaing the fetus through the umblical chord. Example: With the Placenta in such distress, the life support for the fetus was giving out.
Word: Riff
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: A short repeated phrase in popular music and Jazz, typically used as an introduction, or refrain in a song. Example: I wondered how often she used her “hospital paperwork” riff to ease patients’ anxieties.
Phrase: Off the ledge
Parts of Speech: Meaning: "Off the ledge" is a figurative phrase that means avoiding a risky or harmful situation. It can also mean taking a risk, making a big decision, or doing something unexpected. Example: Just keep her off the ledge when she gets scared.
Word: Devise
Parts of Speech: Verb Meaning: Plan or Invent a complex procedure, system, or mechanism by careful thought. Example: Your principal duty is to devise, implement, and manage a backup and recovery strategy.
Word: Drape
Parts of Speech: Verb Meaning: The manner in which fabric hangs or falls; Place casually. Example: Within seconds, the deflating envelope draped onto the ground.
Word: Trotting
Parts of Speech: Verb Meaning: To trot is move faster than walking, but not quite a full-out run. Example: The ballooner came trotting over to us. “Wait wait!” he said. “You ordered the wedding package! It comes with a bottle of champagne!”.
Word: Obsess
Parts of Speech: Verb Meaning: Be preoccupied with something; Haunt like a ghost; pursue. Example: Jai spent the entire day obsessing over how to explain everything to Ricky when he got home from Club Babalu.
Word: Root
Parts of Speech: Noun / Verb Meaning: Come into existence, Originate; Become settled or establishedand stable in one’s residence or life style. Example: As she’d soon learn, my measured response was rooted in my upbringing.
Word: Bluntness
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: Without sharpness or clearness of edge or point. Example: Though Jai wasn’t thrilled with my bluntness and my know-it-all attitude, she said I was the most positive, upbeat person she’d ever met.
Word: Rattle
Parts of Speech: Verb / Noun Meaning: Make a very rapid, short series of knocking or tapping sounds. Example: We did not leave the reception in a car with cans rattling from the rear bumper.
Word: Whisk
Parts of Speech: Verb / Noun Meaning: Move quickly and nimbly. Example: Instead, we got into a huge, multicolored hot-air-balloon that whisked us off into the clouds.
Word: Beam
Parts of Speech: Noun / Verb Meaning: Have a complexion with a strong bright color, such as red or pink. Shine, glow, radiate, Ray. Example: When we had stepped into the balloon, Jai was beaming.
Word: Disconcert
Parts of Speech: Verb Meaning: Cause to lose one’s composure; Cause to feel embarrassment. Example: It didn’t sound like the destruction of the Hindenburg, but it was a little disconcerting.
Word: Intrigue
Parts of Speech: Verb Meaning: To arouse someone’s curiosity, desire, or interest. Example: She was intrigued enough to make a few phone calls to friends of hers in the community.
Word: Gun-shy
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Nervous and apprehensive (anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen). Example: She was getting gun-shy about getting serious again.
Word: Impishness
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: Being playful and a little naughty. Example: She had this gorgeous long hair then, and this smile that said a lot about both her warmth and her impishness.
Word: Singling
Parts of Speech: Verb Meaning: Choose someone or something from a group for special treatment. Example: I couldn’t tell if you did that with everyone, or if you were singling me out.
Word: Machiavellian
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Cunning, scheming, and unscrupulous, especially in politics Example: I’m either an incurable romantic or a bit Machiavellian.
Word: Blissfully
Parts of Speech: Adverb Meaning: In a manner characterized by extreme happiness or joy. Example: No woman, even the right kind, would expect to settle down blissfully into that.
Word: Offbeat
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Unconventional or Unusual. Example: She figured I’m obviously a pretty offbeat and exciting guy. She’s a little offbeat, but she’s a wonderful actress.
Word: Comparative
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Perceptable by comparison, relative. Example: A thirty-one-year-old grad student in comparative literature was working part-time in the UNC computer science department.
Word: Laureate
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: A person who is honored with an award for an outstanding creative or intellectual achievement. Example: Her job was to host visitors, whether Nobel laureates or Girl Scout troops
Word: Funky
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Frightened, panicky, cool, trendy, fashionable, having or using a strong dance rhythm. Example: And then found the links to my funkier personal information.
Word: Formidable
Parts of Speech: Adjective / Noun Meaning: Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable. Example: The most formidable brick wall I ever encountered in my life was just five feet, six inches tall, and absolutely beautiful.
Word: Adept
Parts of Speech: Adjective / Noun Meaning: Very proficient or skilled at something. Example: I was always pretty adept at charging through the brick walls in my academic and professional life.
Word: Courtship
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: A period during which a couple develops a romantic relationship. Example: I didn’t tell the audience the story about my courtship with my wife.
Word: Compulsion
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: The action or state of forcing or being forced to do something. Example: I felt no compulsion to settle down.
Word: Tenured
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Having or denoting a permanent post, especially as a teacher or a professor. Example: Even as a tenured professor who could afford something better.
Word: C ulminate
Parts of Speech: Verb Meaning: Describes a high point or a Climactic stage in a process; end. Example: The goal of a Major League football team is to have their season culminate in a World Series victory.
Word: Conform
Parts of Speech: Verb Meaning: Comply with rules, standards, or laws, to adapt to fit in with new conditions. Example: If you travel to a foreign country, you should conform to the local customs and adjust your usual wardrobe to a more modest one.
Word: Artisan
Parts of Speech: Noun Meaning: An Artisan has both the creativity and the skill to make a product. Example: Next to the straw market is the woodcarvers’ lane, where local artisans demonstrate their crafts and sell them made of wood.
Word: Climactic
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Consisting of or causing a climax Example: Slowly and climactically, Powell and Donovan finished a graphic and resounding story (I, Robot).
Word: Grizzled
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Having dark heirs mixed with grey or white. Example: Your dad’s grizzled beard might need a trim by the end of your two-week camping trip.
Word: Auditory
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Process of hearing. Example: If someone says "Surrender Dorothy" and you hear "Where's the laundry," you have an auditory problem.
Word: Tactile
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Relating to the sense of touch. Example: I'll think I'm responding to the play, when it's only a tactile reaction to vibration (Fahrenheit 451).
Word: Kinesthetic
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: The sensory perception of the movement. Example: If you're interested in kinesthetic questions, you might consider going into physical therapy as a career.
Word: Autonomous
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Describes the things that function separately or independently. Example: The partitioning of India created several separate and autonomous jute economies.
Word: Aural
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Of or Pertaining to hearing. Example: If you have excellent aural abilities, it means that your ears work well. Aural means "pertaining to hearing."
Word: Straddle
Parts of Speech: Verb/Noun Meaning: When you straddle something, you sit on it with one leg on each side, such as straddling a horse or fence. Example: Storage for a single object cannot straddle the two kinds of tablespaces.
Word: Queasy
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Queasy defines a feeling of nervousness, anxiety, or uneasiness. Example: The experience is not like that parasailing trip you took on a small boat where everyone was queasy by the end of the trip.
Word: Amenable
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Disposed or willing to comply, liable to answer to a higher authority. Example: But freshers don't always know how much thought goes into planning dining and how amenable the staff are to catering to special diets.
Word: Rambunctious
Parts of Speech: Adjective Meaning: Noisy and out of control. Example: Kids can be rambunctious when they are with their friends.
Word: Disembarked
Parts of Speech: Verb Meaning: Leave a ship or aircraft or other vehicle. Example: The passengers disembarked at Tampa Bay port.
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