Friday Blog- October 7

Beautiful unbroken- one nurse's life

Mary Jane Nealon

This week I finished my previous book on Monday night. I started reading Beautiful unbroken on Tuesday. Since then I have read pages 1 to 100.

Vocabulary Words

Synagogue- (pg. 7) The building where a Jewish assembly or congregation meets for religious worship and instruction. 

Vestibule- (pg. 7) An antechamber, hall, or lobby next to the outer door of a building. 

Precinct- (pg. 10) A district of a city or town as defined for police purposes. 

Sacrilege- (pg. 16) Violation or misuse of what is regarded as sacred. 

Emesis- (pg. 33) Vomitus- the act of vomit. 

Recriminate- (pg. 49) To bring a countercharge against an abuser. 

Amateur- (pg. 50) A person who engages in a study, sport, or other activity for pleasure rather than for financial benefit or professional reasons. - A person inexperienced or unskilled in a particular activity.

Scanty- (pg. 59) Scant in amount, quantity, etc.; barley sufficient.

Catheter- (pg. 69) A flexible or rigid hollow tube employed to drain fluids from body cavities or to distend body passages, especially one for passing into the bladder through the urethra to draw off urine or into the heart through a leg vein or arm vein for diagnostic examination.

Stucco- (pg. 82) An exterior finish for masonry or frame walls, usually composed of cement, sand, and hydrated lime mixed with water and laid on wet.

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