Friday Blog: Week One

This week I began to read Marcelo In the Real World by Francisco X. Stork. So far I have read pages 1-148. While I was reading I found a few words I was unfamiliar with.

Vocab

Discordant p.12

Being at variance; disagreeing; incongruous.

Twang p.12
To have or produce a sharp, nasal tone, as the human voice.

Foreboding p.14
A strong inner feeling or notion of a future misfortune, evil, etc.; presentiment.

Misgivings p.16

A feeling of doubt, distrust, or apprehension.

Innumerable p.21
Incapable of being counted; countless.

Bureaucrats p.33
An official who works by fixed routine without exercising intelligent judgment.

Futile p.35

Incapable of producing any result; ineffective; useless; not successful.

Profligate p.68
Utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.

Reverie p.88
A state of dreamy meditation or fanciful musing.

Intonation p.95 
The pattern or melody of pitch changes in connected speech, especially the pitch pattern of a sentence, which distinguishes kinds of sentences or speakers of different language cultures.

NY Times