You can find a link to Matthew Gray Gubler's 14 minute reading of the story here.
Here are a list of the vocabulary words to date, you should be reviewing them as you will be having a vocabulary test sometime in the next few weeks:
- desolation (noun): devastation; barrenness
- refuge (n): safety
- exquisite (adj): special beauty; intense feeling of either pleasure or pain
- divert (v): change direction; redirect attention
- perversion (n): make a change from what is natural to what is unnatural/abnormal
- indomitable (adj): unbeatable
- inimical (adj): harmful; hostile; unfriendly
- lacerated (adj): savagely cut or sliced; torn
- obliquely (adv): indirectly, coming at an angle and not straight on
- ochre (adj): yellowish orange colour
- trussed (adj): tied tightly; bound up to prevent movement
- propinquity (n): proximity; the state of being close or near to another
- audacity (noun): boldness; gall
- deputed (verb): to be given responsibility for something
- derision (n): ridicule; scorn
- dissemble (v): to lie
- dissimulation (n): the act of lying; being deceitful
- pitch (noun/adjective): tar; black
- tattoo (n): rhythmic rapping
- vex (v): to irritate
We did discuss other vocabulary words during class, but these (and the ones from the next story) are the ones that you will be responsible for knowing.
