Jan

17

Assuage

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In 9th grade we had a teacher that, as a part of a vocab assignment, had us go around the room and read a sentence we created using one of the week’s words. My word, one week, was assuage. I looked down at my paper and began to read my sentence, not thinking too much about it. My sentence was right out of a checkout-line romance: “In her primal heat she sought him out with tremulous fingers, thinking only of assuaging the heat burning inside her.” The class was dead silent, and so was the teacher. There were some embarrassed laughs and red ears — I felt pretty good about that if a little embarrassed (from the guys: what the hell was that?). From then on, assuage has been hopelessly hooked up to trashy romance and early high school for me.

Ryan Latham
Waco TX

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