Vocabulary words

Careened:
"He focused on the computers screen and careened through the video games dark passages."
definition: sway, or tip to one side while in motion.
I careened beside trees as i ran through the forest.

Reconnoitered:
"He reconnoitered his fathers long, hansome face and studied the wrinkles."
definition: to examine or survey.
I reconnoitered the fruit on the table thoughtfully and then drew it on the paper.

Discerning:
"Discerning what stations where considered cool was another of his moving-in tasks."
definition: showing good or outstanding judgment and understanding.
You have a good discerning of things.

Conspicuous:
"Without jonathan beside, brent felt conspicuous."
defenition: easily seen or noticed; readily visible or observable.
Jake thought he was conspicuous as he walked through the crowd of people.

Inquired:
"A yellow shirt and blue jeans?' he inquired."
definition: to seek information by questioning.
I inquired about her fathers health.

Complied:
"Brent resisted at first then complied."
definition: to act or be in accordance with wishes, requests, demands, requirements, conditions, etc.; agree.
Lila complied with the punishment her mother gave her for sneeking out.

Perennial:
"Brent marvled that people could publicly root for such perennial losers."
definition: perpetual; everlasting; continuing; recurrent.
They perenialy asked about my new dog.

Briskly:
"He strode beside her briskly to keep up."
definition: quick and active; lively.
I briskly walked down the sidewalk with a spring in my step.

Guffawing:
"He pictured them all repeating the scene to there friends, guffawing over it at the twenty year reuniun."
definition: to laugh loudly and boisterously.
The people were all guffawing over the comedy show that afternoon.

Detonated:
"The hated grip on his shoulders again, the public humiliation, the snickers, the alchohol, all mixed and detonated inside brent."
definition: to explode with suddenness and violence.
The fire detonated in the backyard.

Carburetors:
"Another of her amusments, consisting of ordering something at Weeksboro's one resturant, listening to the people at the neighboring table, then talking about what there talking about-carburetors, hysterectomies-completely ignoring them when they stare at you."
definition: a device for mixing vaporized fuel with air to produce a combustible or explosive mixture, as for an internal-combustion engine.
All the cars had carburetors.

Hysterectomies:
"Another of her amusments, consisting of ordering something at Weeksboro's one resturant, listening to people at the neighboring table, then talking about what there talking about-carburetors, hystorectomies-completely ignoring them when they stare at you."
defenition: Surgery .Exersition of the uterus.
Mazie's aunte had a hystorectomie.

Gesticulating:
"It was as big as a box kite and mounted on a pole, gesticulating wildly with moving arms, vanes, wheels, and propellers large and small."
definition: to express by gesturing.
He was gesticulating slowly but with perpose toward the building.

Traction:
"You regret that he will be in traction for years."
definiton: the act of drawing or pulling.
There was so much traction that it hurt.

Muteness:
"The muteness had begun in that moment."
definiton: not emitting or having sound of any kind.
The muteness in the room was becoming erie.

Obituaries:
"He rummaged throught the trash for the following days paper, turned to the gravy-stained obituaries-and found her."
defenition: a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
Mom looked in the obituaries section of the newspaper.

Detrimental:
"There job was to argue that sending him to the juvinile detention centre would be detrimental to his worrisome mentale state."
definition: causing detriment; damaging; harmful.
The object on the table had a poster that said DETRIMENTAL. DO NOT TOUCH.

Restitution:
"Then the judge came to the final item: meeting with the victims family, if they desired, to discuss restitution."
definition: reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation for loss, damage, or injury caused; indemnification.
The family asked for restitution of there new furniture.

Mutilated:
"The reply came on friday-an envelope with his own letter inside, mutilated with scissors, stabbed, defaced with cigarette burns."
definition: to injure, disfigure, or make imperfect by removing or irreparably damaging parts.
Paint mutilated her clothing.

Whirligig:
The title of the book.
definition: something that whirls or revolves with the wind.
Matt watched the whirligig revolve in the wind.