rabbinate — “the office of a rabbi”

He made a grab for me and I swung my handbag at him as hard as I could.

A polymer is a compound formed of repeating structural units called mers, whose atoms share electrons to form very large molecules.

It looked all dim and hayey inside. My stomach tingled. Please let there be kids at the farm, someone my age. I just had to play in that barn. I'd read about kids swinging in haylofts, but I'd never done fun stuff like that.