Vocabulary

There were many interesting words I came across while I was reading, and here are some of them:


Annotated: The Friday sports news was on, annotated by his father's grunts and snorts.
                  - VERB; to supply with critical or explanatory notes. 
                  He annotated the works of Shakespear. 


Careened: He focused on the computers screen and careened through the video games dark passages.
                       - VERB; sway, or tip to one side while in motion.
                       I careened while singing.


Reconnoitered: He reconnoitered his father's long, handsome face and studied the wrinkles, fine as if scratched in with a burin, feeding into his eyes.
                        - VERB; to inspect, observe or survey.
                        She reconnoitered the fact that her friend got a haircut.  


Complied: Brent resisted at first then complied.
                      - VERB; to act or be in accordance with wishes, requests, demands, requirements, conditions, etc.; agree.
                      The boy complied when his mom told him to finish his chores.


Perennial: Brent marvled that people could publicly root for such perennial losers.
                             - ADJECTIVE;  perpetual; everlasting; continuing; recurrent.

                             People thought my friend's new dog was a perennial occurrence. 


Turreted: It was vast and turreted, looming above them like a castle.
               - ADJECTIVE; furnished with a turret or turrets.
                  The room was turreted. 


Guffawing: He pictured them all repeating the scene to there friends, guffawing over it at the twenty year reunion.
                       - VERB; to laugh loudly and boisterously.
                       The friends were guffawing over a joke. 


Detonated: The hated grip on his shoulders again, the public humiliation, the snickers, the alchohol, all mixed and detonated inside Brent.
                        - VERB; to explode with suddenness and violence.
                           The building suddenly detonated. 


Carburetors: Another of her amusements, consisting of ordering something at Weeksboro's one restaurant, listening to the people at the neighboring table, then talking about what they're talking about- carburetors, hysterectomies- completely ignoring them while they stare at you. 
                   - NOUN;  device for mixing vaporized fuel with air to produce a combustibleor explosive mixture, as for an internal-combustion engine.
                     The carburetor was fixed in no time. 


Hysterectomies: Another of her amusements, consisting of ordering something at Weeksboro's one restaurant, listening to the people at the neighboring table, then talking about what they're talking about- carburetors, hysterectomies- completely ignoring them while they stare at you. 
                      - NOUN; excision of the uterus
                       The doctor performed a hysterectomy. 


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.
                              - VERB; to express by gesturing.
                              He was gesticulating while speaking towards his peers.


Idiom: An idiom meaning 'I'm not real anyway.' " 
                 - NOUN; an expression whose meaning is not predictable from the usual meanings of its constituent elements.
                  She spoke an idiom which didn't resemble the context. 




Obituaries: He rummaged throught the trash for the following days paper, turned to the gravy-stained obituaries-and found her.
                        -NOUN;  a notice of the death of a person, often with a biographical sketch, as in a newspaper.
                       My great grandfather was in the obituaries. 


Restitution: Then the judge came to the final item: meeting with the victim's family, if they desired, to discuss restitution.
              -NOUN; reparation made by giving an equivalent or compensation forloss, damage, or injury caused.
              The families discussed a restitution for the death of a child.


Retribution: I don't believe in retribution. 
                 - NOUN; something given or inflicted in such requital.
               The villain kidnapped the superheroʼs girlfriend in retribution for overthrowing his plans to destroy the city. 


Eulogy: Brent wondered what his own eulogy would sound like. 
                  - NOUN; high praise or commendation.
          At the funeral, many friends gave eulogies. 


Scrutinized: He scrutinized her smile from a close range, almost felt her breath on his face.
                 - VERB;  to examine in detail with careful or critical attention.
               The scientist scrutinized the flower.


Offhandedly: "Just seeing the country," he answered offhandedly. "What about you?"
                   - ADVERB; without previous thought or preparation.
                The student answered the question offhandedly. 


Enterprise: The whole enterprise seemed to be taken from a dream, incomprehensible in the light of day. 
               - NOUN;  a project undertaken or to be undertaken.
              The girl excitedly started on her enterprise.


Shearwater: Then I remembered the shearwater bird.
                   - NOUN; any of several long-winged petrels of the genus Puffinus  thata ppear to shear the water with their wing tips when flying low.
               The shearwater bird flew low to the water.