Vocabulary of thunder

1. PLLEGM
   
   
   saliva mixed with discharges from the respiratory passages
   Warm phlegm gathered in Eckels' throat; he swallowed and pushed it down.
2. glorious
   having great beauty and splendor
   Yesterday, we had a glorious battle.
   all, everything fly back to seed, flee death, rush down to their beginnings, suns rise in western skies and set in glorious easts, moons eat themselves opposite to the custom, all and everything cupping one in another like Chinese boxes, rabbits into hats, all and everything returning to the fresh death
3. sway 
   pitching dangerously to one side
   The boat was swaying so badly
   Eckels swayed on the padded seat, his face pale, his jaw stiff.
4. envelop
   enclose or enfold completely with or as if with a covering.
   I enveleped myself into my coat
   The fog that had enveloped the Machine blew away and they were in an old time, a very old time indeed, three hunters and two Safari Heads with their blue metal guns across their knees.
5. franchise
   a business authorized to sell a company's goods or services
   Mcdonald is a franchise because it is owned by another enterprise.
   We have to pay big graft to keep our franchise.
6. finicky
   exacting especially about details
   A new computer is a finiky buisness.
   A Time Machine is finicky business.
7. annihilate
   kill in large numbers
   I annihilated all the mices of the house
   To destroy.
   With a stamp of your foot, you annihilate first one, then a dozen, then a thousand, a million, a billion possible mice!"
8. expendable
9. suitable to be used up
Expendable is somthing that can be used up 
10. The stuff i bought was expendable
    And the caveman, please note, is not just any expendable man, no!
11. slay
12. 
    
    kill intentionally and with premeditation
    I killed him intensionally, i slayed him.
    It is comparable to slaying some of Adam's grandchildren.
13. infinitesimal
14. I never saw somthing so infinitesimal
15. immeasurably small
16. Crushing certain plants could add up infinitesimally.
17. disproportion
18. The cake that i cuted was  cuted in disproportion
    
    imbalance among the parts of something
    A dead mouse here makes an insect imbalance there, a population disproportion later, a bad harvest further on, a depression, mass starvation, and finally, a change in social temperament in far-flung countries.
19. correlate
20. I finaly correlated the crime
    
    bring into a mutual, complementary, or reciprocal relation
    Then I correlate our arrival in the Past so that we meet the Monster not more than two minutes before he would have died anyway.
21. bisect
22. I bisected the little insect by accident
    
    cut in half or cut in two
    "Up ahead, We'll bisect his trail in sixty seconds.
23. resilient
24. Wolverine is resilient
    
    rebounding readily
    It came on great oiled, resilient, striding legs.
25. poised
26. I am ready to fight, i am poised
    
    marked by balance or equilibrium and readiness for action
    It ran with a gliding ballet step, far too poised and balanced for its ten tons.
27. remit
28. We will have to remit all your money
    
    send in payment
    We'll remit half your fee."
29. engulf
30. I am completely engulfed 
    
    flow over or cover completely
    A windstorm from the beast's mouth engulfed them in the stench of slime and old blood.
31. malfunction
32. This machine is malfunctioning 
    
    fail to work properly
    Within, you could hear the sighs and murmurs as the furthest chambers of it died, the organs malfunctioning, liquids running a final instant from pocket to sac to spleen, everything shutting off, closing up forever.
33. tonnage
34. a tax imposed on ships that enter the US
    Bones cracked; the tonnage of its own flesh, off balance, dead weight, snapped the delicate forearms, caught underneath.
    In this sentence, the tonnage is the flesh itself which is so heavy it's crushing.
35. stagnate
    exist in a changeless situation
    They gazed back at the ruined Monster, the stagnating mound, where already strange reptilian birds and golden insects were busy at the steaming armor.
36. primeval
37. God is primeval
    
    having existed from the beginning
    Eckels turned slowly to regard the primeval garbage dump, that hill of nightmares and terror.
38. subtle
39. People were subtle at the begining of the world
    
    working or spreading in a hidden and usually injurious way
    Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so slight, that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there.
40. subliminal
41. Felling that tell you somthing is watching you
    
    below the threshold of conscious perception
    Eckels stood smelling of the air, and there was a thing to the air, a chemical taint so subtle, so slight, that only a faint cry of his subliminal senses warned him it was there.
42. embedded
43. Inside somthing like mummys are embeded in there sarcophagus 
    
    enclosed firmly in a surrounding mass
    Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly, very beautiful and very dead.
44. scrabble
45. I was very scrabbled playing at scrabble
    
    feel searchingly
    He scrabbled at the golden butterfly with shaking fingers. "Can't we," he pleaded to the world, to himself, to the officials, to the Machine, "can't we take it back, can't we make it alive again? Can't we start over? Can't we-"