"Was that a vindictive remark? I couldn’t tell. His mouth, filled with oatmeal, hid his expression. Was he telling me that I would soon join the pack of the dispossessed? I think so."
I found this book by Art Linson lying around in the bookshelf together with another book I forgot to read as well.
No free newspapers on the bus during summer weeks. I grabbed it and put it in my backpack.
When I started to read it I would have laughed out loud if I wasn’t on a bus and out of breath from dashing to catch it.
As I tend to do nowadays I found a word or two that I decided to look up as soon as I got an option. (I used to just guess from the surrounding text and leave it at that.)
Vindictive is related to vengeance but while vengeance traveled by Old French vindictive comes directly from its Latin origin “vindicta”. It means having or showing a strong desire for revenge.
Sources:
Wiktionary
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