#. or: me reading words i already know, and feeling like they were too mundane for my “vibey words” list, but not wanting to forget them. figured i may as well start a list!

• it’s a (adj.) thing (referring to vocal things specifically — like “then he laughs. it’s a piercing and bitter thing…”)
• betray (as in, to unintentionally show/reveal)
• drawing a breath
• stark
• impassively
• noncommittal (hum)
• without intonation / tonelessly / flatly
• permeated
• wryly
• regards (verb)
• assesses (verb)
• in lieu of
• halts
• ruefully
• sift
• without preamble
• proffer
• terse
• layman’s terms
• morosely
• brusquely
• (doing a) disservice (to)
• rudimentary
• byword
• not yet trusting (one’s voice)
• diegetic
• supplies (as a verb)
• bereft
• propensity
• caper
• veiled in (indifference) (of a voice)
• spiffy
• beguile
• pleat
• acquiesce
• cauterize
• domicile
• forswear
• forstall
• bifurcate
• abscond (hurry away)
• vapid
• tartly (of someone’s speech; like a quip)
• countenance (noun and verb: to accept/permit/allow)
• prescient
• a relapse into silence
• "syrupy" sun
• oblong
• malapropism
• eschewed
• apocryphal
• apotheosis
• obstinate