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fusillade means a number of shots fired simultaneously or in rapid succession
A fusillade of shrapnel burst out from keypads that hadn’t been opened.
Maldonado, Isabella. (2024). A Killer’s Game. P. 132
sepulchral (relates to funereal) meaning befitting or suggesting a funeral (as in solemnity)
And it was good, she intoned silently in a sepulchral voice.
Blue, Cheyenne. (2024). Switcheroo. Loc. 2106.
pedantry means dull and overly exact presentation of knowledge or learning
Or she thought it was one of the people she’d met, given that they all ran together into a mass of trembling umbrage and endless pedantry.
Crews, Caitlin. (2023). Summer Nights With A Cowboy. Loc. 78
enmity means positive, active, and typically mutual hatred or ill will
Sometimes she lay there in her little suite of attic rooms at the top of Damaris’s lovely old house and imagined herself the sort of dashing desperado who might inspire the instant enmity of a darkly handsome sheriff…Instead of what she was.
Crews, Caitlin. (2023). Summer Nights With A Cowboy. Loc. 83
dyspeptic means ill humor; disgruntlement
It wasn’t the way she’d turned red, which should have made her look dyspeptic, not cute.
Crews, Caitlin. (2023). Summer Nights With A Cowboy. Loc. 223.
scurrilous means using or given to coarse language
“That’s a scurrilous accusation if ever I’ve heard one.”
Crews, Caitlin. (2023). Summer Nights With A Cowboy. Loc. 2580
aridness means excessively dry
“Intervention?” Janie asked, picking out the most important word in all that aridness.
Crews, Caitlin. (2023). Summer Nights With A Cowboy. Loc. 2959.
tetchy means irritably or peevishly sensitive
“You fell in love with an idiot. That would make anyone tetchy.”
Crews, Caitlin. (2023). Summer Nights With A Cowboy. Loc. 3835.
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