1. paralysed (paralyse)
A few years ago, I heard about the case of Daniel James, a young rugby player who was paralysed and persuaded his parents to let him go to Dignitas.
2. stifling (stifling)
It was essential that Lou came from a small town, rather than a city, because I live in one myself and I’m fascinated by the way that growing up in one can be the greatest comfort – and also incredibly stifling.
3. exhilarated (exhilarated)
But I hope you feel a bit exhilarated too.
4. Epilogue (epilogue)
With best wishes Sheilagh Mackinnon Crown Prosecution Service Epilogue I was just following instructions.
5. tiled (tiled)
1) The surface of the whole complex was tiled, with only a few small steps and slopes, which meant that Will could move in his chair with complete autonomy.
2) There was a tiled floor and expensive rugs, and a sofa at the end that looked out on to a little garden.
6. forfeit (forfeit)
I’ll forfeit any money owed to me.
7. kayaking (kayak)
When Will insisted, I spent one morning windsurfing and kayaking, but I was happiest just hanging around next to him.
8. windsurfing (windsurfing)
When Will insisted, I spent one morning windsurfing and kayaking, but I was happiest just hanging around next to him.
9. infinity (infinity)
True, the colours seemed brighter than England, the sky more vivid, an azure blue that just disappeared and grew deeper and deeper to infinity.
10. disgorged (disgorge)
23 Exactly ten days later, Will’s father disgorged us from the car at Gatwick Airport, Nathan wrestling our luggage on to a trolley, and me checking and checking again that Will was comfortable – until even he became irritated.
11. linoleum (linoleum)
I sat and watched the clock tick and heard the occasional murmuring voices outside and the soft squeak of shoes on the linoleum.
12. pneumonia (pneumonia)
And then Will got pneumonia.
13. going (going)
‘Will’s going to take a holiday,’ I said.
14. respite (respite)
Whatever it was she was doing, it seemed to be giving him just a small respite from that.
15. clandestine (clandestine)
I showed Nathan the next morning, the two of us stooping furtively over our coffees in the kitchen as if we were doing something properly clandestine.
16. sulky (sulky)
He could look quite sulky, Patrick.
17. mischievous (mischievous)
We watched some Japanese animated film which Will said was perfect hangover viewing, and I stuck around – partly because I wanted to keep an eye on his blood pressure and partly, to be honest, because I was being a bit mischievous.
18. wry (wry)
He gave me a wry look.
19. saluted (salute)
Mary saluted me with her drink.
20. patronize (patronize)
‘Don’t patronize her, dear.
21. conspiratorial (conspiratorial)
The look he gave me was slightly conspiratorial.
22. crease (crease)
With Will’s chair secured in the back, and his smart jacket hung neatly over the passenger’s seat so that it wouldn’t crease, we set off.
23. twirl (twirl)
Give us a twirl, then, Louisa.’
24. claustrophobic (claustrophobic)
1) Since Thomas was born, he and Treena had moved into the bigger room, and I was in the box room, which was small enough to make you feel claustrophobic should you sit in it for more than half an hour at a time.
2) ‘I might get claustrophobic.
3) Nobody wants to know that sometimes I feel so claustrophobic, being in this chair, I just want to scream like a madman at the thought of spending another day in it.
25. hiccoughing (hiccup)
We sat there in silence, me on the end of the bench beside him, both of us waiting for my hiccoughing to subside.
26. probate (probate)
‘I found out he is a specialist in wills and probate.’
27. dislodged (dislodge)
1) When he saw the contents of my MP3 player one afternoon, he laughed so hard he nearly dislodged one of his tubes.
2) Two weeks previously a pair of Jehovah’s Witnesses had kept Will captive at the back door for almost fifteen minutes, while he struggled to reverse his chair back over the dislodged doormat.
28. perceptible (perceptible)
It’s not the lifting and cleaning, the medicines and wipes and the distant but somehow always perceptible smell of disinfectant.
29. rack (rack)
The rack was so much emptier with all Treena’s and Thomas’s coats gone.
30. ramps (ramp)
Go to friend’s houses, unless they had wheelchair ramps.
31. quadriplegic (quadriplegic)
1) ‘He’s a … a quadriplegic.
2) I began to compile a new list – things you cannot do with a quadriplegic.
32. consolation (consolation)
‘If it’s any consolation, Clark, it’s not the first time,’ he said, and headed back into the house.
33. bloke (bloke)
Being a bloke.
34. tanned (tanned)
His face now held some colour from our time spent outside; his was the kind of skin that tanned easily.
35. thriller (thriller)
He could occasionally be persuaded into an action thriller, even an epic romance, but drew the line at romantic comedies.
36. dribbling (dribble)
My hand went automatically for my mouth in case I had been dribbling.
37. maudlin (maudlin)
‘Oh, for Christ’s sake, don’t get maudlin, Clark.
38. precautions (precaution)
Each event was carefully marked on my calendar in black, with red pen outlining the precautions I should take, and green for the accessories I would need.
39. ventilators (ventilator)
To face the prospect of sores, and ill health and even ventilators?
40. daunting (daunting)
I wasn’t yet convinced that I could get Will to go much further afield, and even with Nathan’s help the thought of an overnight visit seemed daunting.
41. mauves (mauve)
Mrs Traynor gazed out of the windows, to where her precious garden had begun to bloom, its blossoms a pale and tasteful melding of pinks, mauves and blues.
42. subdued (subdued)
It’s possible he realized I was a bit subdued, because he leant into me a little.
43. parody (parody)
Promise me you won’t spend the rest of your life stuck around this bloody parody of a place mat.’
44. lasagne (lasagne)
She had cooked lasagne, Treena’s favourite, and Thomas was allowed to stay up as a treat.
45. smother (smother)
He had tried to commit suicide twice by starving himself until hospitalized, and when returned home had begged his parents to smother him in his sleep.
46. ministrations (ministrations)
His life was painful, disrupted by infection, and dependent on the constant ministrations of others.
47. tabloid (tabloid)
1) Even reading the words seems odd – like something you might see in a tabloid newspaper, or one of those awful magazines that the cleaner always has poking out of her handbag, full of women whose daughters ran off with their cheating partners, tales of amazing weight loss and two-headed babies.
2) The football player’s parents had been savaged by the tabloid newspapers.
48. savaged (savage)
The football player’s parents had been savaged by the tabloid newspapers.
49. fuss (fuss)
Don’t fuss.
50. tights (tights)
‘Only the best pair of tights ever.’
51. kimonos (kimono)
The wrapping paper had brightly coloured Chinese kimonos on it.
52. impassive (impassive)
Will watched me, his face impassive.
53. apologetically (apologetically)
Dad told him about the company that was about to take over the furniture factory, and when he said the name Will nodded almost apologetically, and said that yes, he knew of them.
54. reconcile (reconcile)
I found myself staring at Will, trying to reconcile the man I knew with this ruthless City suit that he now described.
55. curtsy (curtsy)
1) ‘Hope you’ve practised your curtsy.’
2) ‘A curtsy will be fine.’
56. sinewy (sinewy)
I couldn’t help but notice that his leg was becoming weirdly sinewy.
57. ethereal (ethereal)
But tonight, under a full moon, it seemed flooded in an ethereal blue.
58. cleavage (cleavage)
‘But I’m … well, I’m all cleavage otherwise.’
59. tarmac (tarmac)
And it’s all on tarmac.’
60. regiment (regiment)
‘What regiment, pet?’
61. refurbished (refurbish)
The restaurant had been refurbished, the food now under the auspices of a television chef whose face appeared on posters around the racecourse.
62. Scotch (Scotch)
‘Scotch,’ he said.
63. dilated (dilated)
I watched him vainly trying to make ground, his nostrils dilated, his ears back against his head.
64. squall (squall)
By the time we finally made it over there the blue skies had disappeared abruptly, replaced by a sudden squall.
65. ebb (ebb)
11 There are places where the changing seasons are marked by migrating birds, or the ebb and flow of tides.
66. freeloader (freeloader)
I didn’t want your help anyway, freeloader,’ I said, and then ducked as Dad threw a copy of the Radio Times at my head.
67. caterwauling (caterwaul)
I’ve got enough stress in my life without having to listen to you caterwauling at each other.’
68. beret (beret)
She pulled the beret lower over her ears.
69. quadriplegics (quadriplegic)
She’s trying to find out what’s possible for quadriplegics.
70. nasty (nasty)
I knew I sounded mean and nasty but I couldn’t help myself.
71. stairs (stair)
My sister confronted me within five minutes of arriving home, thundering up the stairs and throwing open the door of my room.
72. resurrect (resurrect)
‘You don’t care what I do, as long as you can still go and resurrect your high-flying career.
73. brittle (brittle)
Her voice had become brittle.
74. opinionated (opinionated)
Paradoxically, the following day Will was on good form – unusually talkative, opinionated, belligerent.
75. facade (facade)
Angry with them for letting me engage in a facade.
76. extinguish (extinguish)
That’s what he was asking me to extinguish – the small child as well as the man – all that love, all that history.
77. corduroy (corduroy)
He stood back, as he always did, watching with quiet satisfaction as the flames took hold, and dusted his hands on his corduroy trousers.
78. culprit (culprit)
There is nothing more disappointing than creating a new border only to see it fail to flourish, or to watch a row of beautiful alliums destroyed overnight by some slimy culprit.
79. embroidery (embroidery)
The funny thing was, I didn’t even do Latin at school – mine was a rather minor public school for girls where the focus was on cooking and embroidery, things that would help us become good wives – but the thing about those plant names is that they do stick in your head.
80. magistrate (magistrate)
1) It came as no surprise when Nathan told me she was a magistrate.
2) I had been a magistrate for almost eleven years now.
81. shriek (shriek)
She appears to have flown all the way from Australia to shriek at me.’
82. theatrical (theatrical)
He gave a theatrical sigh.
83. exotic (exotic)
‘So where did you pick up your exotic tastes?
84. putty (putty)
Sometimes he was in so much pain that his face actually leached colour, turning to pale putty.
85. annexe (annexe)
1) But on a day like today, when Will was confined to bed, and the world seemed to have stilled outside, I could also see there was a kind of meditative pleasure in working my way from one end of the annexe to the other.
2) Some days I would arrive and I could see from the set of his jaw that he didn’t want to talk to me – or to anyone – and, noting this, I would busy myself around the annexe, trying to anticipate his needs so that I didn’t have to bother him by asking.
86. frilly (frilly)
Perhaps I should buy frilly underwear and look up sex tips online.
87. Daffodils (daffodil)
Daffodils had emerged as if from nowhere, their yellowing bulbs hinting at the flowers to come.
88. revolting (revolting)
They sound revolting.’
89. scribbled (scribble)
I scribbled everything down on a notepad.
90. windowsill (windowsill)
There was no hospital smell, and there were fresh flowers in a vase on the windowsill.
91. courgette (courgette)
He called out after me as I left the room, ‘And don’t try and sneak a bloody courgette into it.’
92. arse (arse)
‘You don’t have to behave like an arse.’
93. puncture (puncture)
‘Can that thing get a puncture?’
94. racehorse (racehorse)
She looked like a human racehorse.
95. benign (benign)
I suspected this was like a benign landowner digging in the odd potato just ‘to keep his hand in’.
96. tinged (tinge)
We both stared at her hands, which were pink tinged, even in the tropical warmth of our house.
97. affliction (affliction)
He said it like it was an affliction.
98. conciliatory (conciliatory)
Treen’s voice turned uncharacteristically conciliatory.
99. pussyfoot (pussyfoot)
You don’t have to pussyfoot around him.’
100. sanguine (sanguine)
I helped myself to green beans, trying to look more sanguine than I felt.
101. revealing (revealing)
‘Although you might want to wear … something a bit less revealing.’
102. midriff (midriff)
I felt the waistband cutting into my midriff, and pulled the double-breasted jacket across.
103. waistband (waistband)
I felt the waistband cutting into my midriff, and pulled the double-breasted jacket across.
104. limb (limb)
I had never considered that you might miss a job like you missed a limb – a constant, reflexive thing.
105. pantomime (pantomime)
‘What, as in pantomime dame?’
106. exasperated (exasperated)
Patrick was beginning to look exasperated.
107. floppy (floppy)
Am I allowed to just be a bit miserable and floppy?
108. turquoise (turquoise)
I was wearing my pink trainers with the turquoise laces, the only shoes I could possibly run in.
109. soggy (soggy)
Thomas watched me with big, round eyes, and silently handed me half a soggy biscuit.
110. edifice (edifice)
Dad had had his car written off by an uninsured driver two years previously, and somehow this had been enough for the whole teetering edifice that was my parents’ finances to finally collapse.
111. teetering (teeter)
Dad had had his car written off by an uninsured driver two years previously, and somehow this had been enough for the whole teetering edifice that was my parents’ finances to finally collapse.
112. brandished (brandish)
She brandished a pair of socks.
113. tousled (tousle)
She is wearing one of his T-shirts, and her long hair is tousled in a way that prompts reflexive thoughts of the previous night.
114. PROLOGUE (prologue)
RNA Novel of the Year award. www.jojomoyes.com www.twitter.com/jojomoyes To Charles, with love PROLOGUE 2007 When he emerges from the bathroom she is awake, propped up against the pillows and flicking through the travel brochures that were beside his bed.
115. tousled (tousle)
She is wearing one of his T-shirts, and her long hair is tousled in a way that prompts reflexive thoughts of the previous night.
[释义]
/uk: 'taʊzl, us: 'taʊzl/
v: disarrange or rumple; dishevel
116. subdued (subdued)
It’s possible he realized I was a bit subdued, because he leant into me a little.
[释义]
/uk: səb'djuːd, us: səb'duːd/
adj: in a softened tone, restrained in style or quality, quieted and brought under control, v: put down by force or intimidation, to put down by force or authority, hold within limits and control
117. benign (benign)
I suspected this was like a benign landowner digging in the odd potato just ‘to keep his hand in’.
[释义]
/uk: bɪ'naɪn, us: bɪ'naɪn/
adj: not dangerous to health; not recurrent or progressive (especially of a tumor), pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence, kindness of disposition or manner
118. puncture (puncture)
‘Can that thing get a puncture?’
[释义]
/uk: 'pʌŋktʃə(r), us: 'pʌŋktʃər/
v: pierce with a pointed object; make a hole into, make by piercing, reduce or lessen the size or importance of, n: loss of air pressure in a tire when a hole is made by some sharp object, a small hole made by a sharp object, the act of puncturing or perforating
119. crease (crease)
With Will’s chair secured in the back, and his smart jacket hung neatly over the passenger’s seat so that it wouldn’t crease, we set off.
[释义]
/uk: kriːs, us: kriːs/
v: make wrinkles or creases on a smooth surface; make a pressed, folded or wrinkled line in, make wrinkled or creased, scrape gently, n: an angular or rounded shape made by folding, a slight depression in the smoothness of a surface, a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade
120. pneumonia (pneumonia)
And then Will got pneumonia.
[释义]
/uk: njuː'məʊniə, us: nuː'moʊniə/
n: respiratory disease characterized by inflammation of the lung parenchyma (excluding the bronchi) with congestion caused by viruses or bacteria or irritants
121. respite (respite)
Whatever it was she was doing, it seemed to be giving him just a small respite from that.
[释义]
/uk: 'respaɪt, us: 'respɪt/
v: postpone the punishment of a convicted criminal, such as an execution, n: a (temporary) relief from harm or discomfort, a pause from doing something (as work), an interruption in the intensity or amount of something
122. perceptible (perceptible)
It’s not the lifting and cleaning, the medicines and wipes and the distant but somehow always perceptible smell of disinfectant.
[释义]
/uk: pə'septəbl, us: pər'septəbl/
adj: capable of being perceived by the mind or senses, easily perceived by the senses or grasped by the mind, easily seen or detected
123. sanguine (sanguine)
I helped myself to green beans, trying to look more sanguine than I felt.
[释义]
/uk: 'sæŋɡwɪn, us: 'sæŋɡwɪn/
adj: confidently optimistic and cheerful, inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life, n: a blood-red color
124. thriller (thriller)
He could occasionally be persuaded into an action thriller, even an epic romance, but drew the line at romantic comedies.
[释义]
/uk: 'θrɪlə(r), us: 'θrɪlər/
n: a suspenseful adventure story or play or movie
125. exotic (exotic)
‘So where did you pick up your exotic tastes?
[释义]
/uk: ɪɡ'zɒtɪk, us: ɪɡ'zɑːtɪk/
adj: being or from or characteristic of another place or part of the world, strikingly strange or unusual
126. stifling (stifle)
It was essential that Lou came from a small town, rather than a city, because I live in one myself and I’m fascinated by the way that growing up in one can be the greatest comfort – and also incredibly stifling.
[释义]
/uk: 'staɪfl, us: 'staɪfl/
v: conceal or hide, smother or suppress, impair the respiration of or obstruct the air passage of, n: joint between the femur and tibia in a quadruped; corresponds to the human knee
127. nasty (nasty)
I knew I sounded mean and nasty but I couldn’t help myself.
[释义]
/uk: 'nɑːsti, us: 'næsti/
adj: offensive or even (of persons) malicious, exasperatingly difficult to handle or circumvent, characterized by obscenity, disgustingly dirty; filled or smeared with offensive matter
128. bloke (bloke)
Being a bloke.
[释义]
/uk: bləʊk, us: bloʊk/
n: a boy or man
129. brittle (brittle)
Her voice had become brittle.
[释义]
/uk: 'brɪtl, us: 'brɪtl/
adj: having little elasticity; hence easily cracked or fractured or snapped, lacking warmth and generosity of spirit, (of metal or glass) not annealed and consequently easily cracked or fractured, n: caramelized sugar cooled in thin sheets
130. theatrical (theatrical)
He gave a theatrical sigh.
[释义]
/uk: θi'ætrɪkl, us: θi'ætrɪkl/
adj: of or relating to the theater, suited to or characteristic of the stage or theater, n: a performance of a play
131. culprit (culprit)
There is nothing more disappointing than creating a new border only to see it fail to flourish, or to watch a row of beautiful alliums destroyed overnight by some slimy culprit.
[释义]
/uk: 'kʌlprɪt, us: 'kʌlprɪt/
n: someone who perpetrates wrongdoing
132. floppy (floppy)
Am I allowed to just be a bit miserable and floppy?
[释义]
/uk: 'flɒpi, us: 'flɑːpi/
adj: hanging limply, n: a small plastic magnetic disk enclosed in a stiff envelope with a radial slit; used to store data or programs for a microcomputer
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