Kindle Vocabulary Builder Novels & Stories

He thought: the vocabulary travels further than the building. He thought about the vocabulary travelling — the everywhere-at-once and the stays and the lit crossing, the two attendings and the third attending, the girl's vocabulary from the Thursday morning presentation arriving at Joseph's conference talk arriving at Helen's classroom twelve kilometres along the coast. He thought about the vocabulary as the practice's most mobile correspondent — the words that moved through the correspondence and arrived in rooms the practice had never visited.

“One of the first things I read was the dictionary. I read it, over and over again, different pages, different words. I like to keep the words in my head like a challenge.” Gavin had always been fascinated by her mind and envied how she played. When he married, Rebekah played with her when he wasn’t around. When she started reading books, she would look up any words she didn’t know, and soon there were fewer and fewer words that were out of her knowledge. “Do you still? Read through the dictionary.” “Not like before.” She dug her phone out of her back pocket and waved it. “I have an app that gives me new words every day. Sometimes it’s words I know, and when it’s not, I add it to the vault.”

It was only a brief moment, but I would recognize that tattoo anywhere. On the left peck of the man's chest, swirling ink formed a huge snowflake with a snarling wolf. I knew that picture. It was the sigil of house Caldore. I had seen it in books and read about it in stories. The older witches whispered it in the tales they told my village at night. Wolves with hearts as cold as ice and skin that snow melts upon. I was in Northwood, and what was worse was that I knew the man who was rummaging angrily through the books in his room. I should have realized it the moment I saw his glowing blue eyes.

The vocabulary required the words to enter the body, not just the mind. Don looked up when Ernest came in. His glasses were on. The notebook was open on his lap, the vocabulary written in his hand, the pronunciation guides and the English meanings and the example sentences that he had constructed himself. The example sentences were not the standard sentences from the book. The example sentences were about the estate. About Thomas. About the quince trees and the foxgloves and the path and the oaks. "The vocabulary," Ernest said.