Only Way Out is a fast-paced thriller, full of Tod Goldberg’s sarcastic wit, resulting in one fun read. For me, I loved that in a single sentence in the first chapter, I discovered two interesting and unfamiliar words.

In this blog I offer a different type of book review­—one that’s combined with vocabulary building. In Only Way Out I found a few interesting words.

From Only Way Out:

Only a few knew he possessed such a . . . fungible . . . moral center, and none knew the extent of his mendacity. Most of his true friends couldn’t even define mendacity. 

Fungible, adjective Law: (of a product or commodity) replaceable by another identical item; mutually interchangeable.

mendacity, noun: untruthfulness; lying

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 Definitions are typically from the dictionary that comes with my Mac or The New Oxford American Dictionary.

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“The word is only a representation of the meaning; even at its best, writing almost always falls short of full meaning. Given that, why in God’s name would you want to make things worse by choosing a word which is only cousin to the one you really wanted to use?” ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft