Lauren Block- vocab.

1. Matinee
- An entertainment, esp a dramatic or musical performance, held in the day time, usually in the afternoon.

Sentence from book: "For a second, I was tempted to tell her to forget about the matinee."

2. Inferiority
- Lower in station, rank, degree, or grade.
- Lower in place or position ; close to the bottom or base.
- Of comparatively low grade; poor in quality; substandard.
- less important, valuable, or worthy.
- A condition or state of being or having a sense of being inferior or inadequate especially with respects to one's apparent equals or to the world at large.

Sentence from book: "What I did, I finally put my suitcases under my bed, instead of on the rack, so that old Slagle wouldn't get a goddamn inferiority complex about it.

3. Bourgeois
- A member of the middle class.
- A person who's political, economic, and social opinions are believed to be determined mainly by concern for property values and conventional respectability.
- A shopkeeper or merchant.
- Belonging to, characteristic of, the middle class.

Sentence from book: "He was always saying snotty things about them, my suitcases, for instance. He kept saying they were too new and bourgeois.

4. Lastex
- A brand of yarn made from a core of latex rubber covered with fabric strands.
- A trademark used for a yarn having a core of elastic rubber wound with rayon, nylon, silk, or cotton threads.

Sentence from book: "He wore those white Lastex kind of swimming trunks, and he was always going off the high dive.