Violets Are Blue: "Click"–"Elphaba"

by Barbara Dee
Following her parents' divorce, twelve-year-old Wren uses her interest in special effects makeup to make friends at a new school while overcoming struggles with her mother at home.

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  1. camouflage
    device or stratagem for concealment or deceit
    My mermaid’s superpower was a kind of camouflage: blending into her surroundings.
  2. bureau
    furniture with drawers for keeping clothes
    Dad showed me what he said would be my room—a small rectangle on the second floor, with walls painted butter yellow, a white bureau over by the window, and a futon covered by a pale blue quilt with a kite pattern.
  3. clammy
    unpleasantly cool and humid
    Vanessa took my clammy hands and held them in her warm ones.
  4. proportion
    relation with respect to comparative quantity or magnitude
    All of a sudden, he looked like he was about five years old. By that I mean it was like his eyes were too big for his face, like the proportions were all wrong for a grown-up.
  5. ignoramus
    a person who lacks intelligence or sophistication
    “Oh, good morning, Ren. I’m just thinking about makeup for the wedding. But I hardly ever wear any, and I’m kind of an ignoramus when it comes to these things, so I thought maybe if I watched a tutorial—”
  6. undermine
    weaken or impair, especially gradually
    Make choices: a dramatic eye, a strong mouth, a great wig. Wherever you’re going, choose two or three elements to develop to the max, or you'll undermine the impact.
  7. snide
    expressive of contempt
    I knew this was bragging. But seeing Annika’s jealous expression—and the way she couldn’t come up with a snide remark for once—made it worth it.
  8. billow
    rise and move, as in waves
    Vanessa wore a big swishy wedding gown that billowed around her huge belly.
  9. dramatic
    sensational in appearance or thrilling in effect
    For a second I thought it might be funny to give her a Catwoman sort of effect, with a big dramatic wing and purple eye shadow.
  10. consultation
    a meeting to discuss a particular question or topic
    “Girls, enough consultation,” Ms. Arroyo, the math teacher, warned from the other side of the classroom.
  11. ecstatic
    feeling great rapture or delight
    Poppy was ecstatic with how it turned out, though; she couldn’t stop laughing when I took her photo.
  12. stipple
    apply in small dots or strokes
    The next time, we did Frostbite—tricky, because according to Cat FX’s Evil Snowman video, you needed white cream makeup (which I didn’t have) and a stipple brush (which ditto).
  13. prosthetic
    of or relating to artificial body parts
    Then Poppy suggested Too Much Plastic Surgery. This one sounded fun, but after a few minutes I knew it was too advanced. To do it right, you needed to make prosthetics—a fake pinched nose, puffy lips, and a too-high, too-smooth forehead—and I wasn’t ready for that step yet.
  14. modest
    marked by simplicity; having a humble opinion of yourself
    I tried to tell her it wasn’t very good, but she just laughed and said I was crazy. Not in an Oh, Wren, you’re sooo weeeird sort of way, like Annika. More like: You’re really talented at this, Wren. Don't be so modest.
  15. iridescent
    varying in color when seen in different lights
    I still wasn’t getting the iridescent effect, though—and I was wondering why when Poppy startled me.
  16. glamorous
    having an air of allure, romance and excitement
    I definitely didn’t want to go through all that stuff again, with people mad that I didn’t make them cute or glamorous.
  17. hobble
    walk unevenly due to pain, injury, or weakness
    Not even looking at me, she got up from the sofa stiffly and hobbled upstairs, leaving the red mug on the coffee table.
  18. accentuate
    stress or single out as important
    The point of fairy makeup is to accentuate the size of the eyes, so you can't really tell age.
  19. neutral
    having no personal preference
    Ms. Belfonte smiled neutrally, like a nurse taking your temperature.
  20. mauve
    a moderate purple
    Probably my best purple eye shadow was the one in my Vanessa box—Deepest Mauve by Gawjuss Makeup.
Created on Mon Mar 07 09:06:28 EST 2022 (updated Mon Mar 14 09:30:44 EDT 2022)

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