"What's Good?"
A greeting used by youth in Hartford. Synonymous with "how's it going?" or "what's up?"
Taxidermy
The practice of preserving the bodies of animals.
Unmoored
To set free or release from a particular geographic location or space.
Tenuous
A state of being fragile or unstable.
Centaur
A mythological being that is half-man and half-horse.
PTSD
Post-traumatic stress disorder, a range of symptoms that can be experienced after a stressful or troubling event such as war.
Ricochet
To bounce or rebound off something.
Ambivalent
To have uncertain or mixed feelings.
Fatigues
The uniform worn by soldiers.
Ubiquity
Something that appears everwhere or is very common.
Lo siento
"Lo siento" means "sorry" in Spanish.
Beauty
A combination of qualities—such as shape, color, or form—that pleases the aesthetic senses, especially sight.
Prosthesis
An artificial body part, such as a leg, a heart, or a breast implant.
Martyr
A person who is killed because of religious or other beliefs.
Agency
Action or intervention, especially to produce a particular effect, or a thing or person that acts to produce a particular result.
Fetus
An unborn offspring of a mammal, in particular an unborn human baby more than eight weeks after conception.
Brims
Be full to the point of overflowing.
Superimposed
Placed or laid over something else, typically so that both things are still evident.
Parataxis
The placing of clauses or phrases one after another, without words to indicate coordination or subordination.
Legible
Of handwriting or print: clear enough to read.
