Nouns
Realistic achievability or the ability to practice something in a circumstance
Practicality
(Page 330, paragraph 8 - Natasha says that practicality is overrated and that Daniel should pursue poetry)
Made by a machine
Machined
(Page 313, paragraph 6 - Natasha calls the city skyline a machined piece of art.)
Glum
To look/feel sad or dispirited
(Page 330, paragraph 13 - There was a glum silence between Daniel and Natasha on the way to the airport.)
Warily
Doing something with wariness/cautiousness
(Page 343, paragraph 6 - Natasha watched Irene warily as she told her story)
Sincere/intense conviction(being fully convinced of something)
Sincere/intense conviction(being fully convinced of something)
(Page 311, paragraph 6 - Natasha refers to Daniel as earnest when he calls Rob a cheater.)
Surpassing human ability
Transcendent
(Page 327, paragraph 3 - Natasha refers to her dad’s acting as thus)
Mutable
Liable to change or alter.
(Page 334, paragraph 7 - Natasha and Daniel have a sense that the length of a day is mutable.)
Communing
To feel spiritually in contact with something
(Page 339, paragraph 3 - Natasha was communing with her music when Daniel first saw her.)
Clashing, disharmonious things/events/situations.
Dissonance
(Page 320, paragraph 5 - Natasha refers to the feeling of Daniel at his front door as dissonant. Daniel did not seem to belong.)
In error
(Page 339, paragraph 3 - The errant BMW driver who almost hit Natasha and hit Attorney Fitzgerald)
Acrophobic
Fearful of great heights
(Page 342, paragraph 1 - Irene holds hands with the acrophobic)
Flit
To move swiftly and lightly
(Page 343, paragraph 6 - Something like pain flitted across Natasha’s face as Irene told her story)
A house made of clapboard, which is a long, thin, flat piece of wood
Clapboard House
(Page 319, paragraph 2 - There are clapboard houses in Natasha’s neighbourhood)
Agoraphobic
Fearful of being in an open or crowded area
(Page 342, paragraph 1 - "[Irene] holds hands with... the agoraphobic"
Peripheral
Of secondary importance
(Page 318, paragraph 7 - Daniel said he is only bothered peripherally by the people watching him and Natasha. This shows that Daniel doesn’t care how others see him and considers that only a secondary priority)
Bulletproof
Without flaws or loopholes
(Page 317, paragraph 1 - While walking through Natasha’s neighbourhood, they walk by bulletproofed restaurants and liquor stores)