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Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #11

RJ — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 02:12:26 +0000

I’m so happy! My English teacher is letting me do a word of the day for the class. Today’s word:

Glossolalia

(n) Incomprehensible speech uttered from a state of religious fervor or trance.

And a sentence:

The priest, scarred by the vampire attack, muttered glossolalia with wild eyes.

Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #10

RJ — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 03:24:20 +0000

Today’s word:

Hircine

(adj) Resembling or smelling like a goat. Also: Lustful. Let’s assume, in the context of modern vampires, the latter will be the use.

And the sentence!

The hircine vampire, hungering for blood, approached his prey with measured steps and a wicked smile.

Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #9

RJ — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 03:09:52 +0000

Today’s word is:

Grume

(noun) A thick coating, esp. a blood clot.

And the sentence!

The fang marks from the previous week were aching and covered by a thick, hard grume.

Vampire Vocab:Off Book! #8

RJ — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:48:32 +0000

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.

Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #7

RJ — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:43:46 +0000

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.

Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #6

RJ — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 11:38:08 +0000

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.

Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #5

RJ — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 02:36:50 +0000

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.

Vampire Vocab: Off Book! # 4

RJ — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:23:55 +0000

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.

Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #3

RJ — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:10:02 +0000

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.

Vampire Vocab: Off Book! #2

RJ — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 01:56:10 +0000

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 had to obsessively count everything. As a measure of “defense”, people would spread birdseed or rice outside their homes.

Ok, that sounded seriously “vampire geeky”. If there is such a thing.