utmost
It seemed to me of utmost importance to stop the music,
I removed the record from the turntable
and meant to slip it into its jacket when it was grabbed
out of my hands and I heard it shatter on the floor.
vendor
A tall man with a $10 bill in his hand
stood surveying an apple vendor's stand
on Detroit's Woodward Avenue one day last week.
vessel
Today's vessels can find their prey using satellites and sonar,
which were not available 50 years ago.
volatile
The couple had been married since February 2003
but did not live together as they had a "volatile relationship"
in which Hargreaves often became violent after drinking,
and Owen had not taken his name.
volcano
Unlike most of the world's volcanoes, they are not always
found at the boundaries of the great drifting plates
that make up the earth's surface; on the contrary,
many of them lie deep in the interior of a plate.
wretched
We all remember, and undoubtedly always will remember,
what happened at Columbine High School.
But for those of us who were in high school on that day,
the memories are especially wretched-and personal.