Also, your 15 vocabulary words are as follows:
- euphoric (adj) - extreme happiness
- vacuum (n) - the absence of
- eschew (v) - to avoid deliberately
- laconically (adv) - with few words
- torsion (n) - the state of being twisted
- phosphenes (n) - the white stars and squiggles one sees when one presses one's eyes with his/her fingers
- chortle (v) - to laugh gleefully; to chuckle and snort
- bunk (n) - nonsense
- maladroit (adj) - clumsy or socially awkward
- lacerated (v) - to tear or deeply cut (usually skin)
- boon (n) - a benefit; a good thing
- sublimation (n) - to divert or channel feelings into a socially acceptable outlet
- acrimony (n) - bitterness or ill feeling
- boondoggle (n) - spending money on questionable projects; a pointless activity that has the appearance of being valuable
- paramount (adj) - supreme; more important than anything else
- retribution (n) - punishment that is considered morally right and deserved
- desecrate (v) - to treat a sacred place with violent disrespect; to violate
- intrepid (adj) - fearlessness; adventurousness
- err (v) - make an error
- disheveled (adj) - disorderly or untidy (in one's appearance)
