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Vocabulary: fabulist – teller of fabulous tales


Title: Unbroken
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Sentence: Ever a fabulist, he told investigators that Ofuna [prison camp] interrogators were “always kind to prisoners,” that he’d never seen a prisoner abused, and that prisoners rarely complained.
Page: 369

Word: fabulist
Definition:
  • A composer of fables.
  • A teller of tales; a liar.
   Source: The Free Dictionary

You may look fabulous but don’t be a fabulist.


March 10, 2011 | GaryPaulson
Tags: fabulist, Laura Hillenbrand, Unbroken
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Vocabulary: imperious – domineering and overbearing


Title: Unbroken
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Sentence: It was the fighters, gunned by the B-29s, blowing up. The bombers flew on, imperious.
Page: 275

Word: imperious
Definition:
  • domineering in a haughty manner; dictatorial; overbearing: an imperious manner; an imperious person.
  • urgent; imperative: imperious need.
   Source: Dictionary.com

I guess bombers can fly arrogantly but more likely they were impervious?


March 9, 2011 | GaryPaulson
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Vocabulary: rictus – mouth wide open


Title: Unbroken
Author: Laura Hillenbrand
Sentence: When the bombs were falling, the Bird would snap, running through camp with his sword in the air, wailing at the men, foam flying from his mouth, lips peeled back in a wicked rictus, eyelid drooping, face purple.
Page: 276

Word: rictus
Definition:
  • the gape of the mouth of a bird.
  • the gaping or opening of the mouth.
   Source: Dictionary.com

That is quite a rictus you have there….


March 8, 2011 | GaryPaulson
Tags: Laura Hillenbrand, rictus, Unbroken
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