/ˈkôrəˌskādiNG/
adjective
But I forced myself to look down into the coruscating ripples, hanging on to the rim with cramping fingers, my breath coming in choked gasps, until I thought I saw a shadow — a face —
– Rosamund Hodge, Cruel Beauty
/iˈnimək(ə)l/
adjective
“They’re written and signed by the queen of Kildenree and detail inimical intentions, with dates, numbers, places, all stamped with the royal insignia.”
– Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl
/’pwēsnt,ˈpyo͞oəsnt,ˈpwisnt/
adjective
“Look,” said Terne, sounding as thought he spoke through clenched teeth, ” are you begging for a private audience with her puissantness?”
– Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl
/prəˈfəndədē/
noun
The next morning, Ani noticed how many of the guards now looked at her with the same wariness that marked their eyes when they contemplated the dark profundities of the forest.
– Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl
/’səkər/
noun / verb
She had not sought his comfort in years, trying as she was to grow up, to be independent and queenly enough not to hurt, but she longed for his succor now.
– Shannon Hale, The Goose Girl
/ˌi(r)rəˈmēdēəb(ə)l/
adjective
“I am grateful it hasn’t been entirely destroyed,” Mr. Hall said. “But it was perfect, and now it’s –” The more he said the more he sounded angry. “The damage is irreversible, irremediable.”
– Cynthia Voigt, The Vandemark Mummy
/ˈsīnəkyo͝or/
noun
You will more than earn it, in the first years. After that, it will perhaps smack of the sinecure.
– Cynthia Voigt, The Vandemark Mummy
/iˈbo͝olyənt/ or /iˈbəlyənt/
adjective
Bad: Twice Ronan got a phone call from his Ganseyfriend and both times he did not say anything to the phone, just listened to the ebullient patter on the other end and made grunting sounds in response.
– Maggie Stiefvater, Opal
/ˌinəˈləktəb(ə)l/
adjective
Druj sense-memories were a kind of ineluctable torment, like an itch they could never scratch.
– Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
/ˈplanjənt/
adjective
Kizzy knew, but she willfully unknew it, and the plangent voices of the dead were lost to the drum of her hot blood and the tingle of her ready lips.
– Laini Taylor, Lips Touch: Three Times
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