Marbles
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A rock of crystalline limestone. Any of several children's games played with small glass balls.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To cause (something to have) the streaked or swirled appearance of certain types of marble, for example by mixing viscous ingredients incompletely, or by applying paint or other colorants unevenly.
Example sentence: I have just one black and white photograph left of my mother when she was younger. She was 17 when it was taken and beautiful with wispy curls and eyes that shone like dark marbles.
Wits
Part of speech: noun
Definition: (now usually in the plural) Sanity.senses.
Example sentence: When my disease nearly destroyed me in 2009, my doctors thought I'd be lucky to regain 80 percent of my cognitive abilities. When I was at my sickest, I couldn't read or write. I could barely walk on my own or groom myself. The disease felled me physically and mentally - robbing me, briefly but intensely, of my wits, my sanity, my memory, my self.