Ink Tea Stone Leaf

Introducing a new weekly series, Vocab 128, in which I sit down with pen and paper and write 128 words beginning with the same letter, in more or less the order that I think of them, before scanning the page and posting it here. The result is a flex of my vocabulary muscles, an exposure of my handwriting to the world, and perhaps an insight into the psychology of my word associations.

Generally, I avoid words that are merely alternate forms of other words, and when I think of such a word I generally default to the appropriate noun form. Proper nouns I exclude as a rule (but we’ll see how that goes once I get to X).

A decent start, though note the presence of Alien following Alienation, and my comics-influenced misspelling of Asterisk.

This week’s definition from American Heritage Dictionary:

ad·duct (ə-dŭkt, ă-dŭkt)

tr.v. ad·duct·ed, ad·duct·ing, ad·ducts
Physiology
To draw inward toward the median axis of the body or toward an adjacent part or limb.
n.
Chemistry
A chemical compound that forms from the addition of two or more substances.
[Back-formation from ADDUCTOR.]