Vampire Vocab


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Vampire Vocab:Off Book! #8

Today’s word is: Inanition (n) Emptiness, the state of being empty When all his Dolce & Gabbana clothes were destroyed, the vampire felt as though there would never be anything again but inanition.

October 6th, 2011
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Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #7

Here’s a word that I love: Meable (adj.) Easily penetrable. The vampire’s defenses were meable. He had, after all, spent all his money on clothes.

October 6th, 2011
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Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #6

And today’s word is: Invidious: (adj.) Provoking envy or ill will. The vampire’s snazzy, invidious clothes were the primary reason the villagers had decided to come stake him.

October 6th, 2011
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Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #5

Today’s word is: Cyrenaic (adj.) Hedonistic, pertaining to hedonism. Sentence: Despite the reputation vampire’s have for being either moody or cyrenaic, the vampire who worked at the grocery store was neither. He was just…normal.

October 3rd, 2011
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An Interview with Vincent The Calculator

Hello, all! We are here with a very special guest, Vincent the Calculator! Yes, it’s the very same lucky calculator that has helped me through so many otherwise impossible math tests! Let’s begin the interview! Me: Hello, Vincent, we’re happy to have you! Vincent: I’m pleased to be here. (Well, he’s awfully friendly, isn’t he? [...]

October 2nd, 2011
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Vampire Vocab: Off Book! # 4

Today’s word is Eremitic (adj). Reclusive And the sentence: The eremitic vampire lurked in his den, while his mother fussed at him to get out of the house, get a life, or something.

October 2nd, 2011
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Well, here’s that story…

So, it kind of sucks…well, actually, it really does. It was an interesting premise, I thought, but poorly executed. Anyway, it was built on “can a class really destroy someone?”. I hear people saying things like “Trig is killing me!”, so I wrote the story based on that. I would have gone further, but unfortunately, [...]

October 2nd, 2011
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Six word Saturday

At YPC, then Girl scouts. Super fun!

October 1st, 2011
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Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #3

Today’s word is: Littoral (adj.) A seashore or coastal region, pertaining to such. And the sentence: The vampire’s love of littoral scenes compounded his depression as he realized he would never see the sun, so often associated with the sea, again.

October 1st, 2011
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Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #2

Today’s vocab word is: Seriatim: adv. In a series, one after another Ok, and the sentence: The traditionalist, OCD vampire who believed that vampires actually do have the crazy need to count everything around them, counted the scattered grains of rice seriatim. And that’s true…well, not the vampire: the fact that, in traditional myth, vampires [...]

September 30th, 2011
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