/məˈkadəm/
noun
To start the game, one team joined hands and stretched out in a line across the macadam playground.
– Cynthia Voigt, Orfe, page 11
/twē/
adjective
Lately Angelie’s been acting nastier about a lot of things, and once or twice she’s told me flat out that something I’m wearing is way too twee, even though for as long as we’ve been dressing like this, that’s kind of been the whole point.
– Brenna Yovanoff, Paper Valentine, page 50
/vərˈtijənəs/
adjective
Beckett was ten, and constantly in motion, climbing up vertiginous things, practicing his ninja moves, and biking through our neighborhood’s streets with abandon, usually with his best friend Annabel Montpelier, the scourge of stroller-pushing mothers within a five-mile radius.
– Morgan Matson, Since You’ve Been Gone, page 12
/enˈsôrsəl/
verb
They didn’t think about the fact that it was pretty much falling down, that it was three stories and drafty, shockingly expensive to heat in the winter and, with central air not yet invented when the house was built, almost impossible to cool in the summer. They were ensorcelled with the place.
– Morgan Matson, Since You’ve Been Gone, page 11
/dīˈafənəs/
adjective
She walks through the house like a ghost. Sometimes she thinks she would be better off without a body. Better off floating and diaphanous and thin.
– Katrina Leno, The Half Life of Molly Pierce, page 212
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