Easy!
Here are some of the "elevated vocab" used in the book
- exalted
- tutelage
- ceaseless
- brood
- disciple
- allegiance
- Permian
- meticulous
- innate
- waning
- jiggering
- loquacious
- emblazoned
- prowess
- accouterments
- chagrined
- stoic
- ambivalence
Choose which you think are the best lol
here are the sentences they are in
- When he hit three homers in a game
once, he didn't go back to the bench feeling exalted (pg 105)
- Under the demanding tutelage of his father, Mike could do no wrong in Little League (pg 105)
- The one ceaseless complaint was that he thought too much, and he knew that was true, that whenever he threw the ball he didn't ... (pg 106)
- . The gift was always there, but he began to question it, doubt it, brood over it (106)
- Billy, the proud master, watching his gifted disciple from the car, unable to get out because of the pain in his leg and the arthritis. (pg 105)
- They went through their pre-game warmups with methodical, meticulous determination. (pg 109)
- There wasn't a player in that locker room who didn't innately understand exactly what lion Meredith was talking about (pg 398)
- He found what he was looking for and did the same thing he did every Friday afternoon in those lousy waning hours before game time. (pg 23)
- "to place his hands, jiggering his stance just a tad here and a tad there, doing all the things only a dad could do to make a swing level (pg 109)
- said Warren Burnett, a loquacious, liberal-minded lawyer who after roughly thirty years had Hed the place like a refugee for the coastal waters near Houston. " (pg 55)
- And another had a towel and a flag emblazoned with the Moto rallying cry. (pg 64)
- They had no special athletic prowess. (pg 69)
- But stripped of all the accoutremerits, reduced to a gray shirt soaked with sweat, he had lost his persona (pg 87)
- They didn't whisper it, or look chagrined after they said it. (pg 123)
- He tried to be stoic, giving the familiar speech that no team was ever built around one player (pg 98)
Hope I helped !
