Kiss Number 8: List 1

by Colleen AF Venable, Ellen T. Crenshaw
In this graphic novel, Mads's idyllic life is upended when she must come to terms with a surprising family secret and a crush on her best friend.

This list covers pages 1–145.

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  1. jinx
    foredoom to failure
    You wanna jinx the whole first inning?
  2. primp
    dress or groom with elaborate care
    Relax! We've got time. Free Bird's still primping.
  3. perilous
    fraught with danger
    Whose broad stripes and bright stars, thru' the perilous fight...
  4. superstition
    an irrational belief arising from ignorance or fear
    Make fun of my superstitions, but you know I'm right this time.
  5. inevitability
    the quality of being unavoidable
    Mads, cheating is pretty much an inevitability of marriage.
  6. delusional
    suffering from or characterized by erroneous beliefs
    Say hi to Tweedle-Dum in Delusional Disneyland.
  7. hallucination
    an object perceived during a delusional episode
    Sally just thinks she had a baby, but it was really a hallucination.
  8. quota
    a prescribed number
    You'll be over your good deed limit. You're about to hit your quota by staying in this room.
  9. frank
    characterized by directness in manner or speech
    And, well, to be frank, if anything is going to kill them, it's your cooking.
  10. impressive
    making a strong or vivid mental image
    It's one of your more impressive ones.
  11. amendment
    a statement that is added to a proposal or document
    I plead the fifth, sixth, seventh, and any other amendment that gets me out of explaining.
  12. sleazy
    morally degraded
    You need to talk it out, not get drunk at some sleazy club.
  13. stationary
    standing still
    Maybe they'll figure you're a twenty-one-year-old who never got a license 'cause she kept driving into stationary objects?
  14. infamous
    known widely and usually unfavorably
    So this is the infamous Zipper?
  15. hallowed
    worthy of religious veneration
    Our father...who art in heaven...hallowed by thy name...
  16. boycott
    refuse to sponsor; refuse to do business with
    They lose today...I boycott away games.
  17. simulate
    create a representation or model of
    I'm also really good at the flight simulator games.
  18. resort
    have recourse to
    You wanna be your father, I'm not going to stop you, but if you EVER resort to his style of discipline...
  19. cryptic
    of an obscure nature
    No idea who that is. And could the note on the back be more cryptic?
  20. swab
    wash with a mop
    Jim called it that once. Made me laugh so hard I almost had to swab the deck.
  21. omnipresent
    existing everywhere at once
    Only instead of some nice omnipresent dude on a fancy chair on the other side, there's just a bitter old man and his trophy wife.
  22. deem
    judge or regard in a particular way
    We will return your call if we deem it appropriate.
  23. mascot
    a person or animal adopted by a group as a symbolic figure
    St. Francis has a mascot?
  24. leprosy
    communicable disease characterized by wasting of body parts
    Our parents practically beg us to hang around you in the hopes your perfectness will rub off on us like social leprosy.
  25. stealthy
    marked by quiet and caution and secrecy
    Hojo86: then how about you sneak out and we go for a walk besides you need A LOT more practice being stealthy
  26. gazette
    a newspaper or official journal
    Let me just go get some old Gazettes from 1960.
  27. census
    a periodic count of the population
    I figure that's a good place to start. And maybe track down some census information.
  28. montage
    the technique of splicing together different sections of film to convey an idea
    This is a lot less like a CSI montage than I hoped.
  29. espionage
    the systematic use of spies to obtain secrets
    I'll just have to wait to hear the exciting story of espionage and local government filing systems.
  30. generic
    not protected by trademark
    We sell labels of all of the town residents for only twenty-five dollars. A bargain. Pre-printed on Avery, none of those generic brand labels.
Created on Tue Oct 01 16:58:52 EDT 2019 (updated Tue Oct 01 17:01:42 EDT 2019)

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