Nerve gas, Weapon of chemical warfare that affects the transmission of nerve impulses through the nervous system.
According to Ryan Compton's Infinite Jest by the Numbers, Wallace used a vocabulary of 20,584 unique words to write the 577,608-word Infinite Jest. 10. 11. n+1 has a neat story about where the name for Michael Pemulis, Hal's drug-dealing friend at Enfield Tennis Academy, came from.
Some of the most common saw characters repeatedly make last-ditch efforts to save their skin when something is wrong. There are three books in The Hunger Games series which, according to Slate, have a very similar word count of 101,200 words, 101,900 words, and 102,700 words. In comparison the books in the Harry Potter series varies considerably in length with the final Harry Potter book more than twice as long as the first.