VOCABULARY POST

1. One eye had been cut out when he was a kid, and now he wore the kind of thick glasses that made his eyes (both the real one and the glass one) preternaturally huge, like his whole head was basically just his fake eye and this real eye staring at you.

 PRETERNATURALLY: out of the ordinary course of nature; exceptional or abnormal;supernatural

That chair preternaturally moved by itself.

2/3. Fights were recounted, battles won amid wars sure to be lost; hope to clung to; families were both celebrated and denounced; it was agreed that friends just didn't get it; tears were shed; comfort proffered.

DENOUNCED: to announce/proclaim, especially as something evil or calamitous

PROFFERED: to but before a person for acceptance 

The doctor denounced the parents about the current situation in the operating room for their daughter.

Emily proffered Alexis to come stay at her house while her parents were gone. 

4. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it.

INEVITABILITY: unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain; necessary

The inevitability of the traffic on the bridge really effects the amount of time to cross it. 

5. Most of the time, I could forget about it, but the inexorable truth is this: They might be glad to have me around, but I was the alpha and omega of my parents' suffering. 

INEXORABLE: unyielding; unalterable

Earthquakes are usually inexorable to control. 

6. It was a quick flight to Detroit, where the little electric car met us as we disembarked and drove us to the gate for Amsterdam. 

DISEMBARKED: to leave an aircraft or another vehicle 

My cellphone began to ring as I disembarked the bus. 

7. He came home from the hospital a few days later, finally and irrevocably robbed of his ambitions. 

IRREVOCABLY: not to be revoked or recalled

The stocks on the market fell irrevocably.

8. Or did an omnipotent God create basketballs out of the vacuum of space?

OMNIPOTENT: almighty or infinite power as God

No one is as omnipotent as our God.

9. I went downstairs to the tiny windowless gift shop and asked the decrepit volunteer sitting on a stool behind a cash register what kind of flowers  smell the strongest.

DECREPIT: weakened by old age

One of our school teachers who recently retired was decrepit.

10. Sadly, the bridge is already under insurgent control due to questionable strategizing by my bereft cohort.

BEREFT: deprived

She was to deprived in energy she refused to work. 

By: Jocelle Refol