STORY #1: THE NEW YORK TIMES AT SPECIAL BARGAIN RATES. BY: STEPHEN KING

                                    

Chuckles (verb)

To laugh quietly.

Original sentence where the word was found:

James chuckles. It is a bewildered sound. “Well, I tell you what,” he says. “I don’t exactly know where I am.”

Examples:

-He was the only one who chuckles after her joke.

-When I remember how bad I was at math in high school I chuckles.

Grief (noun)

Very great sadness, speacilly at the deat of someone.

Original sentence where the word was found:

“Beep,” she whispers, then covers her mouth to hold in laughter that is some emotion even more complicated than grief finding the only way out it has. “Beep, beep. Beep, beep, beep.”

Examples:

-The grief was so strong that he had to go to the psychologist.

-I felt grief when I lost my first cat.

Grinning (verb)

A wide smile.

Original sentence where the word was found:

“Jimmy, did you know?” This idea has been the hardest and most terrible part for her—that he might have known, if only for an endless minute or two. Others might picture burned bodies or dismembered heads with grinning teeth; even light-fingered first responders filching wedding rings and diamond ear-clips, but what has robbed Annie Driscoll’s sleep is the image of Jimmy looking out his window as the streets and cars and the brown apartment buildings of Brooklyn swell closer.

Examples:

-She asked him What was he grinning about.

-My friend David is always grinning when he talks about his grilfriend.

Hush (verb)

Used to tell someone to be quiet.

Original sentence where the word was found:

“Jimmy, are you all right? Are you . . . are you burned?” The truth of what that would mean occurs after the question, thumping down with the heavy weight of a dropped book on a bare foot, and she begins to cry. “Are you in the hospital?”

“Hush,” he says, and at his old kindness—and at that old word, just one small piece of their marriage’s furniture—she begins to cry harder. “Honey, hush.”

Examples:

-Hush! I can't concentrate if you're talking to much.

-Carlos, please hush, I'm listening to a voice message from my mother.

Mutters (verb)

To speak quietly and in a low voice that is not easy to hear, often when you are worried or complaining about something.

Original sentence where the word was found:

1. “I have to go, Annie. I can’t stay here, and the phone’s going to shit the bed any second now, anyway.” Once more in that I’m-scolding-myself voice (impossible to believe she will never hear it again after today; impossible not to believe) he mutters, “It would have been so simple just to . . . well, never mind. I love you, sweetheart.”

Examples:

-Why did you tell her about my birthday? he mutters, you know I hate my birthday.

-I hate when my coworkers mutters about my salary.

Nostrils (noun)

1. Either of the two openings in the nose through which air moves when you breathe.

2. 
   

Original sentence where the word was found:

She’s cold all over. “Who is this really? Why are you being so horrible? I just lost my husband, you asshole!”. “Honey—”

“Don’t call me that!” There’s a clear strand of mucus hanging from one of her nostrils.

Examples:

-She was laughing because he had mucus on his right nostril.

-My nostrils were very irritated after the flu.

Qualm (noun)

1. 
   

2. An uncomfortable feeling when you doubt if you are doing the right thing.

Original sentence where the word was found:

When she and Craig go back to New York, they fly. About this she never has a qualm, but she stops going to Zoltan’s Family Bakery on Sundays when she’s home, even though their raisin bagels are, she is sure, served in heaven’s waiting room.

Examples:

-She cheated on him without a qualm.

-I had no qualm leaving my old partner.

Shrewish (adjective)

   

It's a moody or aggressive behavior, typically used by women. A shrewish woman is one who always argues and disagrees with people.

Original sentence where the word was found:

“James? Where are you? What happened?” In her normal voice, this might have come out sounding shrewish—a mother scolding her wayward eleven-year-old who’s come late to the supper-table yet again—but now it emerges in a kind of horrified growl. 

Examples:

- Her anger grew and with it she became shrewish.

-  My sister Clara always maintains her shrewish throughout the day.

Stirring (adjective)

1. 
   

2. A stirring speech or song is one that produces strong, positive emotions.

3. 
   

Original sentence where the word was found:

Annie looks guiltily down at her own legs, still beaded with water. She imagines him licking off those beads and is horrified to feel a sexual stirring.

Examples:

-She felt jealous stirring after his boyfriend hug his bestfriend.

-I didn't remember how stirring it was to swim in a pool from 2 years ago.

Utters (verb)

1. 
   

2. To say something or to make a sound with your voice.

Original sentence where the word was found:

1. Her absurd attraction for the FedEx man has been a joke between them for years. She begins to cry again. His cell utters another of those beeps, as if scolding her for it.

2. 
   

Examples:

-After 5 years of knowing him, He has never utter a word.

- After telling my sister that she didn't pass her driving test, she don't utter any complaints.