Shut
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A narrow alley or passage acting as a short cut through the buildings between two streets.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To close, to stop from being open. To close, to stop being open. To close a business temporarily, or (of a business) to be closed.
Example sentence: Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Tight
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: Firmly, so as not to come loose easily.Soundly.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Pushed or pulled together.Of a space, etc, narrow, so that it is difficult for something or someone to pass through it.Of a turn, sharp, so that the timeframe for making it is narrow and following it is difficult.Under high tension.Well-rehearsed and accurate in execution.Intoxicated; drunk or acting like being drunk.Intimately friendly.Extraordinarily great or special.Unfair; unkind.Miserly or frugal.Scarce, hard to come by.A player who plays very few handsA strategy which involves playing very few hands
Example sentence: I don't concentrate on any one period of history; I like to locate my stories in wildly different eras and places. I seem to be drawn to large, sprawling, uncomfortable swaths of American history, finding embedded within them a tight narrative that involves strife, heroism, and survival under difficult circumstances.