Not Like Other Girls: Chapters 14–17

by Meredith Adamo
In this mystery novel, a high school senior searches for her missing ex-best friend and comes face-to-face with her own trauma in the process.


Here are links to our lists for the book: Chapter 1-4, Chapter 5-8, Chapter 9-13, Chapter 14-17, Chapter 18-22, Chapter 23-29, Chapter 30-34, Chapter 35-42, Chapter 43-49, Chapter 50-Epilogue

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  1. reverent
    feeling or showing profound respect or veneration
    Hudson nods, almost reverent.
  2. terse
    brief and to the point
    “Why is he being so terse with you?”
  3. platonic
    free from physical desire
    That we kept our touching purely platonic: roughhousing, horsing around.
  4. delicacy
    something considered choice to eat
    But we’d recently gotten into it about Rochester’s foulest delicacy: hot dogs, macaroni salad, meat sauce, home fries, mustard, onions.
  5. entitled
    qualified for by right according to law
    I find it conceptually horrifying, but I laughed when he said I’m entitled to my wrong opinion.
  6. disinterested
    unaffected by concern for one's own welfare
    He shrugged, disinterested, but his smile betrayed him.
  7. tripe
    lining of the stomach of a cow (used as food)
    I’ve been burned before: chewy tripe, Bay Leaf’s cat food.
  8. inspect
    look over carefully
    Hudson inspects the fridge, then my face.
  9. duvet
    a soft quilt usually filled with down
    My bedroom is kind of beautiful, honestly: pale pink walls and a shag rug under the four-poster bed, a peach-patterned duvet, gold lamps that give the space a warm glow.
  10. dislodge
    remove or force from a position previously occupied
    His steps dislodge the showerhead off the hook.
  11. uncanny
    surpassing the ordinary or normal
    This scene has a funhouse effect, like how the Channel 12 newscasters looked so uncanny at my first holiday party, people I’d only seen on TV come to life.
  12. laze
    be idle
    Ben lazes on the chaise lounge with a red plastic cup.
  13. huddle
    crowd or draw together
    Two Lourdes girls huddle by the heat lamp, warming their fingers.
  14. designate
    give an assignment to someone
    She turns to me, sheepish, and says, “It’s really nothing. Like, we used to designate someone to be on Jo Patrol at parties and...look out for you.”
  15. allegedly
    according to what has been declared but not proved
    “Trey plagiarized Kathleen’s English midterm. Allegedly,” Sara adds.
  16. collide
    crash together with violent impact
    I wrench my wrist free, push into the hall, almost collide with Hudson.
  17. accost
    approach and speak to someone aggressively or insistently
    They accost me at my desk—last row, back corner—before AP Econ.
  18. adhesive
    a substance that unites or bonds surfaces together
    She hands me a sticky note with ten bucks fixed to the adhesive.
  19. get along
    have a smooth or friendly relationship
    “We’re too much drama, and we’re shallow, but you get along better with guys, anyway, right? Because you’re so cool. That’s what they tell you. You’re different. Is that it?”
  20. sidle
    move sideways
    I sidle up beside him.
  21. tedious
    so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness
    Unfortunately, the program is beyond tedious.
  22. insight
    clear or deep perception of a situation
    “I have more insight than ‘I take the elevator up but the stairs down,’ I promise.”
  23. partition
    a vertical structure that divides or separates
    For our last stop, she leads me behind a mesh partition to her messy desk.
  24. jut
    extend out or project in space
    He juts out his hand, the pen flinging to my lap.
  25. nefarious
    extremely wicked
    “This is a pretty white girl from an upper-middle-class family. If something nefarious happened, she’d be dominating cable news. But she’s not. The simplest story is that Maddie ran away.”
Created on Wed Mar 26 06:50:48 EDT 2025 (updated Thu Mar 27 04:18:19 EDT 2025)

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