Friday Blog: Week Eight

This week I began reading The Rosie Project by Graeme Simsion pages 118-232. In addition to reading, I also watched another episode of Atypical. While I was reading I came across a few words that I was unfamiliar with.

Vocab

Suffused p.127
To overspread with or as with a liquid, color, etc.

Altruism p.129
The principle or practice of unselfish concern for or devotion to the welfare of others (opposed to egoism).

Innocuous p.149
Not harmful or injurious; harmless.

Sabbatical p.160
Of or pertaining or appropriate to the Sabbath.

Intonation p.167
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.

Subverted p.179
To overthrow (something established or existing).

Presumably p.195
By assuming reasonably; probably.

Perceptive p.203
Having or showing keenness of insight, understanding, or intuition.

Hominids p.214
Any member of the group consisting of all modern and extinct humans and great apes (including gorillas, chimpanzees, and orangutans) and all their immediate ancestors.

Surreptitiously p.226

Obtained, done, made, etc., by stealth; secret or unauthorized; clandestine.

All definitions are taken from dictonary.com