March 4, 2014

Vital Vocab 22

Hello, dears.  I'm tired.  Do not expect anything too extraordinary.
((oh gosh wow, I forgot to post it last night.  I'm sorry.))

Prompt: --
Vocab: pretense, procure, prosaic, pragmatic, prudence
Commonly Confused Words: aloud/allowed
Grammar Focus: parallel structure

Isaac Bade-
     Unfortunately, Aunt Gaile had remembered to lock the front door again.  I sighed aloud as I tried the knob.  I couldn't fathom why she thought this was necessary; it had never struck me to be particularly pragmatic (and again I wished one of us could have had the prudence to procure a house key).  I glanced over at the garage door's keypad, but instead of trying the code, I just sat again on the front steps in the rain.  The keypad hadn't worked in months; no matter how much I tried it, I would not be allowed in.
     I leaned against the front door and absently covered the edges of bits of paper from my backpack in prosaic scribbles.  Scri-scritch, scri-scritch, scri-scritch....  My mind wandered back to the library, all the girls with their chittery laughs and fake smiles.  Social pretense was such bull.

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