http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/surreal


1. SURREAL (adj) Having the disorienting, hallucinatory quality of a dream; unreal; fantastic.

and then afterward, when you go to tell about it, there is always the surreal seemingness which makes the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed. pg. 71

Example, because it says," which the story seem untrue, but which in fact represents the hard and exact truth as it seemed."

The whole thing seemed so surreal.


2. VIGIL (n) a period of staying awake to watch or pray.

I'll never be certain, of course, but I think he meant to bring me up against the realities, to guide me across the river and to take me to the edge and to stand a kind of vigil as I chose a life for myself. pg. 56

Your Logic, you can kind of tell it's meaning by the way it's used in context.

He stood a vigil, as I broke into the house.


3. INTRIGUED (v) to arouse the curiosity of.

The war intrigued her. pg. 96

Synonym, the book says," "and the mystery". The word mystery is a synonym for intrigued.

Mermaids intrigue me.