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.
If the word count of Twilight is disregarded, the average becomes around 88,625. 1  Harry Potter and The Sorcererâs Stone has 17 chapters with titles, and about 4560 words per chapter.  Twilight has 24 titled chapters, or 26 if you count the Preface and Epilogue, and about 4580 words per chapter.