Vocabulary

reticence (adj) - reluctant, reserved, or restrained; disposed to be silent or not to speek freely.

"To an extent, i suppose, his reticence of that part of Minnesota, where privacy still held value, and even if I'd been walking around with some kind of deformity-four arms and three heads- I'm sure the old man would have talkied about everything but those extra arms and heads."

I practice reticence because i prefer to listen rather than to speak.

I used logic and my background knowledge of the word, "reticent" as it was one of the only vocabulary words that stuck with me throughout highschool.

Intrigue (v) - to arouse curiosity or interest by unusual, new or otherwise facinating or compelling qualities; appeal strongly to.

"The war intrigued her."

I am intrigued by the photography class I just started taking.

I used logic to connect the fact that Mary Anne took great interest in the war to determine the meaning of intrigued.

Vaporous (adj) - having the form or charactoristics of vapor; foggy or misty

"The seven silhouettes seemed to float accross the surface of the earth, like spirits, vaporous and unreal."

The vaporous freeway made for pleanty of accidents and traffic on the way to work today.

I used the example of spirits to connect the transparent matter of vapor to the word vaporous.