Anecdote
A short account of an interesting incident or event, often biographical.
Aperitif
An alcoholic drink taken before a meal to stimulate the appetite.
Assiduous
Showing great care and perseverance.
Audacity
Boldness or daring, especially with confident or arrogant disregard for personal safety, conventional thought, or other restrictions.
Benzedrine
An amphetamine, or stimulant. One of the frequent side effects of taking such drugs is weight loss.
Borne
Past tense of bear: to carry or transport.
Cease
Come to an end.
Circumscribed
Restricted by limits.
Demean
Something or someone that causes a loss of dignity.
Evensong
Traditionally, Evensong is a Christian service of evening prayers, psalms and canticles. For Susie, Evensong is the time when she surrounds herself with dogs and with music played by the other occupants of her heaven.
Foolhardy
Recklessly bold or rash.
Hyperaware
Informed and alert.
Inextricable
Impossible to disentangle or separate.
Malevolent
Having or showing a wish to do evil to others.
Marvel
To be filled with wonder or astonishment.
Obsequious
Excessively obedient or attendant.
Ostracize
To exclude someone from society or a group.
Perpetual
Continuing forever.
Petulant
Childishly sulky or bad-tempered.
Punt
A delay in answering or taking action.
Spunk
Courage or spirit.
Subjugation
To make submissive.
Tenuous
Very weak or slight.
The Inbetween
The place that Susie defines as being between heaven and Earth. When Susie occupies that space she is sometimes able to communicate with people on Earth.
Transfiguration
in reference to the Transfiguration of Jesus Christ, where Christ appears in radiant glory to three of his disciples. It can also mean a complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state.
Ubiquitous
Present, appearing, or found everywhere.
Vengeance
Infliction of injury, harm, humiliation, or the like, on a person by someone who has been harmed by that person; violent revenge.
Wedgwood
Ceramic ware made by a man with that name in the 1700s. Most famous for powder blue stoneware with white embossed cameos.
Wrought
Bring about; produce as a result.
