# Shared-Vocabulary Ban Conformance - Chapter 10

Cards checked: Theo, June, Odile, Mara, Luis, Priya, Ben, Ruth, Sam. Global blacklist checked from reading guide and tics tracker: breath-holding variants, body flips/flutters, "something shifted," smirk/chuckle, "a beat," one-word reaction paragraph, beauty-unawareness framing, dialogue diagnosis, `load-bearing` variants, skyline/weather/mirror tropes, and prior run tics.

- `ECHO-OK - "hands" - deliberate assignment motif, evidence: assignment card "Your partner's hands..." and Chapter 10 card "hands foreground sanctioned."`
- `ECHO-OK - "love" - assignment vocabulary, not leakage, evidence: Odile's card and instruction use it as the task's pressure term.`
- `CROSS-FAVORITE - "thing" - speakers/narration: Odile "The hands do the thing"; Luis's thing / Theo's thing; June "That's the arrangement" avoids repeating it in the key exchange. Proposed disposition: monitor but do not add to blacklist because the assignment requires a named action and the term does not blur speakers in the decisive dialogue.`

Nearest misses:
- never-says: no character uses destiny/muse/soulmate/grand gesture/perfect in dialogue.
- ownership leakage: Theo's logistics vocabulary stays in his narration/dialogue ("flat-file runners," "glassine," "rack"); June's visual/craft vocabulary stays in her lines ("The grip," "looser").
- global blacklist: no `load-bearing`, smirking, chuckling, breath-catching, "a beat," body flips, or dialogue diagnosis.

Chapter verdict: `VOCAB-CONFORMS`.

REVISION ORDERS: None.
