Fightin' Words with Ingrid Jendrzejewski

Ingrid Jendrzejewski is this month's featured memoir writer. If you haven't checked out "Freefall is a Compound Word" yet, you're missing out. Here, she completes the puzzle of December's Fightin' Words by giving us the single best word for:

1)      What you're wishing for: sleep
2)      Ugly holiday sweaters: splendiferous
3)      The shortest day of the year: sigh
4)      Your sense of style: Butcher's* 
5)      Finishing a book: gutpunch
6)      Something that smells different than it tastes: bubblebath
7)      When everyone stands up to get off a plane: epilogue
8)      Catching a glimpse of a full moon: complicity

* 4th Edition