Noun
Greek
(pg 3)
Sentance: With the brass nozzle in his fists, with great python spitting its venomous kerosene upon the world.
Noun
Late Middle English
(pg 3)
Sentance: His hands were the hands of some amazing conductor playing all the symphonies of blazing and burning to bring down the tatters and charcoal ruins of history.
Stolid-[stol-id]-not easily stirred or moved mentally; unemotional; impassive.
Adjective
Latin
(pg 3)
Sentance: With his symbolic helmet numbered 451 on his stolid head.
Grille-[gril]-an opening, usually covered by grillwork, for admitting air to cool the engine of an automobile or the like; radiator grille.
Noun
Old French
(pg 10)
Sentance: He stood looking up at the ventilator grille in the hall and suddenly remembered that something lay hidden behind the grille, something that seemed to peer down st him now.
Imperceptibly-[im-per-sep-tuh-buh
l]-very slight, gradual, or subtleAdjective
Medievil Latin
(pg 11)
Sentance: And if the muscules of his jaw stretched imperceptibly, she would yawn long before he would.
Probscis-[proh-bos-is, -kis]-Also called beak. the elongate, protruding mouth parts of certain insects, adapted for sucking or piercing.
Noun
Latin
(pg 25)
Semtance: Three seconds later the game was done, the rat, cat or chicken caught half across the area-way, gripped by gentling paws while a four-inch hollow steel needle plunged down from the proboscis of the Hound to inject massive jolts or morphine or procaine.
Proclivities-[proh-kliv-i-tee]-natural or habitual inclination or tendency; propensity; predisposition
Noun
Latin
(pg 33)
Sentance: Were all firemen picked then for their looks as well as their proclivities?
Odious-[oh-dee-uh
s]-deserving or causing hatred; hateful; detestable.Adjective
Middle English
(pg 35)
Sentance: Beatty, Stoneman, and Black ran up the sidewalk, suddenly odious and fat in their plump fireproof slickers.
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