Vital Vocab 2

So, last post I introduced my Vital Vocab assignment.  Here's the second entry of that, which I think is ever more all-over the place than the first, so please excuse me.  But here it is.

Prompt: --
Vocab Words (underlined): archaic, amiable, anecdotal, audacious, abhorred
Grammar Focus: your/you're, semicolon

A/N: I’m actually changing her name from Emilia Keye (my default character name) to Eliza Benjamin - I found some old prewriting docs from a writing camp I did this summer and decided I’d model this after them.  This is the same character, however, as in last week’s Vital Vocab installment.  Also, next week’s entry will be longer.  ((EDIT: ha, I tried.))

Eliza Benjamin-

I finished my assignments and looked at the cat that had settled next to me.  Good Lord, the thing was archaic.  Grey streaks permeated its fur.  I scratched it behind a delicate ear and it opened a pair of yellow eyes, purring immediately.  

“Well aren’t you an amiable little thing,” I murmured.  That was when my mom came out.  

“Well hello!” she said.  I laughed a little, the tone of her voice making it apparent that she was talking to the cat.  “You know Eliza, once as a kid, I broke my ankle from tripping over a cat on my stoop.”  She proceeded to go off on an anecdotal tangent.  Her stories always involved audacious brothers and unlikely accidents, and every time she made me wonder if I’d ever have that kind of story to tell.  So far, well, my seventeenth year and I hardly had any stories at all.  I abhorred the thought that maybe, I never would....

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