The Egg - A Short Story
Vocabulary
nonetheless
adverb
Nevertheless.
painless
adjective
Free from pain; without pain or trouble.
Not difficult; easy.
medics
noun
A doctor.
A paramedic, someone with special training in first aid, especially in the military.
A medical student.
avail
noun
Effect in achieving a goal or aim; purpose, use (now usually in negative constructions).
Proceeds; profits from business transactions.
An advertising slot or package.
A press avail.
Non-binding notice of availability for work.
A readily available stock of oil.
Benefit; value, profit; advantage toward success.
Effort; striving.
utterly
adverb
Completely, entirely, to the fullest extent
shattered
verb
To violently break something into pieces.
To destroy or disable something.
To smash, or break into tiny pieces.
To dispirit or emotionally defeat
To scatter about.
mincing
verb
To make less; make small.
To lessen; diminish; to diminish in speaking; speak of lightly or slightingly; minimise.
To effect mincingly.
To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine.
To suppress or weaken the force of
To say or utter vaguely, not directly or frankly
To affect; to pronounce affectedly or with an accent.
To walk with short steps; to walk in a prim, affected manner.
To act or talk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.
skidding
verb
To slide in an uncontrolled manner as in a car with the brakes applied too hard.
To protect or support with a skid or skids.
To cause to move on skids.
To check or halt (wagon wheels, etc.) with a skid.
nothingness
noun
State of nonexistence; the condition of being nothing.
Void; emptiness.
Quality of inconsequentiality; lacking in significance.
afterlife
noun
Life after death.
The place believed to be inhabited by deceased people.
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