Thread:GodzillaFan1/@comment-28171460-20171118184325/@comment-28171460-20171126213030

I was reading through Curse of the Cave Creatures, and it was really fun and well written.

But one word in the book caught me off-gaurd: "wheedles". I had never heard that word before! It basically just means to speak softly in a soothing or coaxing manner. (I've searched quite a few places, and the only other Goosebumps book to use this word is Deep in the Jungle of Doom.)

The last GYG book where I noticed an elevated vocabulary and a clever story was All-Day Nightmare.

Upon further research, it turns out that Scott Westerfeld has used "wheedle" a few times: once in The World of the Golden Compass and once in this blog post.