Vocabulary

Barrel.- the discharging tube of a gun

"With my tongue I can feel the silencer holes we drilled into de barrel of the gun." (Palahniuk, 11)

Topple.- to fall from or as if from being top-heavy

 " You take enough blasting gelatin and wrap the foundation columns of anything, you can topple any building in the world2 (Palahniuk, 13)

Napalm.-a thickener consisting of a mixture of aluminum soaps used in jelling gasoline (as for incendiary bombs)

"The three ways to make napalm: One, you can mix equal parts of gasoline and frozen orange juice concentrate [...]" (Palahniuk, 13)

Heave.-  to rise or become thrown or raised up. 

"Bob slid across the basement floor to heave himself on me" (Palahniuk, 21) 

Clinging.- to have a strong emotional attachment. 
"Everyone clinging and risking to share their worst feel" (Palahniuk, 23)

Tray.- an open receptacle with a flat bottom and a low rim for holding, carrying, or exhibiting articles. 
"On takeoff [...] our seats in their full upright position and our tray tables stowed" (Palahniuk, 26)

Sprocket.- a toothed wheel whose teeth engage the links of a chain.
"The projectionist booth is soundproof because inside is the racket of sprockets snaping film" (Palahniuk, 27)







Clatter.- to make a rattling sound. 
"Clattering Gatling-gun fire." (Palahniuk, 27)








Staccato.- Abrupt, disjointed.
"The staccato of a hundred seatbelt buckles snapping open." (Palahniuk, 31)






Gauge.-  to measure something. 
"How he'd use the line to gauge the shadow cast by each log." (Palahniuk, 33)






Wince.- to shrink back involuntarily (as from pain). 
"Everyone around here when they eince or twilch  and fall down [...]" (Palahniuk, 35)




Grief.- an unfortunate outcome (disaster).
"But now there was dying and death and loss and grief" (Palahniuk, 38)




Halogen.- any of the five elements fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine, and astatine that form part of group VIIA of the periodic table and exist in the free state normally as diatomic molecules
"My Audi was still parked in the lot, but a Dakapo halogen torchiere was spread through the wind shell" (Palahniuk, 46)



Torchiere.- an electric floor lamp giving indirect light. 
"My Audi was still parked in the lot, but a Dakapo halogen torchiere was spread through the wind shell" (Palahniuk, 46)

Stitch.-a portion of thread left in the material or suture left in the tissue after one stitch 
"The stitches have come loose, and I can feel them with my tongue against the inside of my cheek" (Palahniuk, 47)

Shingles.- an acute viral inflammation of the sensory ganglia of spinal and cranial nerves that is associated with a vesicular eruption and neuralgic pains and is caused by reactivation of the herpesvirus causing chicken pox
"The shingles on the roof blister, buckle, curl, and the rain comes through." (Palahniuk, 56)




Crummy.-very poor or inferior.
"Watch Marla throw herself around her crummy room" (Palahniuk, 59)




Tallow.- the white nearly tasteless solid rendered fat of cattle and sheep used chiefly in soap, candles, and lubricants. 
"Put the skimmed tallow into the milk cartons with the top opened all the way." (Palahniuk, 71)





Furnace.-an enclosed structure in which heat is produced (as for heating a house or for reducing ore). 
"The color of Marla's brown eyes is like an animals that's been heated in a furnace and dropped into cold water." (Palahniuk, 103)









Pawn.- one of the chessmen of least value having the power to move only forward ordinarily one square at a time, to capture only diagonally forward, and to be promoted to any piece except a king upon reaching the eighth rank. 
"Tyler was the paw of the world, everybody's trash" (Palahniuk, 113)






Heap.- a collection of things thrown one on another. 
"Then the kid fell through my arms in a heap" (Palahniuk, 123)


Tuft.- a small cluster of elongated flexible outgrowths attached or close together at the base and free at the opposite ends;especially : a growing bunch of grasses or close-set plants. 

"Tufts of hair surface beside the dirt clods. Hair and shit." (Palahniuk, 135)


Tug.-  To pull hard. 
"One space monkey tugged down his esteemed pants." (Palahniuk, 164)






Evict.-to force out (expel)
"Prepare to evict the member in three, two, one." (Palahniuk, 179)









Tuck.- to push in the loose end of so as to hold tightly. 
"The barrel of the gun tucked in my surviving cheek." (Palakniuk, 205)