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179 Cards in this Set
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to consist (v) |
to be made up of
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consist (v) |
We _____ of Papa, Mama, Jean, Clara, and me.
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absent-minded (adj) |
being forgetful
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absent-minded (adj) |
He is the loveliest man I ever saw or ever hope to see - and oh, so ______.
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studious (adj) |
quality of studying a lot
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studious (adj) |
...gradually he picked up enough education to enable him to do as well as those who were more _____ in early life.
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despairingly (adv) |
with little or no hope
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despairingly |
Papa went _____ upstairs and said to mamma, "Livy, the mahogany room won't go on."
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mahogany (n) |
Papa went despairinly upstairs and said to mamma, "Livy, the _____ room won't go on."
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mahogany (n) |
a hard, expensive wood of a dark reddish, brown color
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in vain (adv) |
uselessly, to no avail, without the desired result
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in vain (adv) |
Mama tried to explain to papa..., but _____; papa couldn't understand...
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incessantly (adv) |
without stopping
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incessantly (adv) |
He smokes a great deal, almost _____...
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consequently (adv) |
as a result
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consequently |
He put the alarm on, and then went down and opened the window; _____ the alarm rang.
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pestilence (n) |
a deadly, epidemic disease
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pestilence (n) |
The names he has given our different cats are really remarkably funny. They are named ...______ and Famine.
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famine (n) |
extreme hunger
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famine (n) |
The names he has given our different cats are really remarkable funny. They are named...Pestilence and _____.
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pauper (n) |
a very poor person
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pauper (n) |
One of papa's latest books is The Prince and the _____.
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to oblige (v) |
to force someone to do something
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obliged (v) |
Papa had been _____ to take the mahogany room off the alarm.
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marrow (n) |
the inside fatty tissue of a bone; the innermost part of something
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marrow (n) |
I am a mugwump from the _____ out.
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complexion |
quality or color of skin
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complexion |
His _____ is very fair.
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procession |
a line of people marching slowly
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procession |
The pauper is riding on horseback in the recognition _____.
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devastate |
to destroy utterly
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Geoffrey Canada was ______________________ when one of his boys got into trouble.
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devastated |
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abomination |
something vile, shameful, detestable
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The state of my bedroom is an _____________ and utterly disgusting.
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abomination |
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catalyst |
something that causes change without itself being affected
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catalyst |
...his ideas about poverty started to change. The ________ was something simple: a waiting list
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preposterous |
outlandish, unbelievable
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preposterous |
He told a ____________ lie, and no one believed him.
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obstreperous |
loud, boisterous, unruly, resisting control
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obstreperous |
_________________ children are in violation of Rule #3: don't be annoying.
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trajectory (n) |
the curve of a projectile or rocket, flight path
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trajectory |
Freytag's Pyramid shows the __________ of a plot.
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extraneous |
not important or necessary
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extraneous |
When you take notes, you need to leave out __________ words.
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omit |
leave out
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omit (v) |
When you take notes, you need to __________ extraneous words.
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pry (v) |
to pull
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pried (v) |
While two servants _____ apart and held open mouths of dogs writhing with rabies, Pasteur sucked up the fatal froth into his tube.
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ponder (v) |
to think deeply
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pondered (v) |
"We've got to produce this rabies in animals in our laboratory and keep it going there - otherwise we won't be able to go on studying it steadily," he _____.
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convulsions (n) |
seizures
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convulsions (n) |
Two of the rabbits might drag out their hind legs with a paralysis - then die in dreadful _____...
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indomitable (adj) |
one who cannot be tamed
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indomitable (adj) |
You would think that Roux and Chamberland, still youngsters, would been the _____ ones. But on the contrary!
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monk (n) |
a religious man living apart from others
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monkish (adj) |
So it was that this man scolded his _____ disciples and prodded them to do useless tests over and over...
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disciple (n) |
a devoted follower
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disciples |
So it was that this man scolded his monkish _____ and prodded them to do useless tests over and over...
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grope (v) |
to feel about blindly
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groper (n) |
Then, one exciting day, the first sweet music of encouragement came to these _____ in the dark...
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recur (v) |
to happen again
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recurrence (n) |
When a beast once has rabies and gets better from it, there will be no _____.
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shrivel (v) |
to shrink
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shriveled (v/adj) |
This _____ bit of nervous tissue that had once been so deadly they shot into the brains of healthy dogs...and those dogs did not die.
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inoculate (v) |
to give a shot/injection to someone
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inoculated (v/adj) |
...and so on until the fourteenth day - when each beast was injected with one-day-dried virus that would have surely killed a not-_____ animal.
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severe (adj) |
extremely harsh
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severe (adj) |
At the end of these _____ experiments, the commission announced that the rabies vaccine worked.
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whimper (v) |
to whine, fret, cry softly
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whimpering (v) |
He was a pitifully _____, scared boy - hardly able to walk.
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fester (v) |
to rot, worsen
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festering (v) |
...when Vulpian saw the angry _____ wounds, he urged Pasteur to start his inoculations...
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malady (n) |
illness
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malady (n) |
...the _____ must have a terrible start; they have no chance...
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tatters (n) |
rags
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tatters (n) |
Around him were Roux and Chamberland and the other searchers he had worn to _____ with his restless energy...
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futile (adj) |
useless
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futile (adj) |
...that kind of hero who has directed the _____ butchering of thousands of enemy...
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skepticism (n) |
disbelief
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skepticism (n) |
Do not let yourselves be spoiled by empty _____.
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grief (n) |
extreme sadness
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grief (n) |
But he kept his sorrow to himself, so his wife would not know his _____.
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shear (v) |
to cut off sharply
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sheared (v) |
He look at the great gray cliffs that _____ off into the sea.
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slough (v) |
to cast off, to get rid of
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slough (v) |
His skin seemed to _____ off.
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wallow (v) |
to roll and tilt
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wallowed (v) |
A large seal swam about the boat that ______ in the sea.
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worn out, in rags
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shabby |
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The blind rises on that top room, a __________ little room if Mrs. Darling had not made it the hub of creation...
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shabby |
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whine, complain, beg
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wheedle |
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Michael: Am I not to be born at all?
John: Two is enough. Michael: (_______________) Come, John: boy, John. |
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wheedling |
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the one who earns the household income
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breadwinner |
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He is really a good man, as ________________ go ...
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breadwinners |
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making fun of someone
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sarcastic |
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This tie, it will not tie. (He waxes ____________) Not round my neck. Round the bedpost, oh yes...
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sarcastic |
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offspring, children
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progeny |
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In a terrible silence their _______ cluster round them.
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progeny |
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to run into
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collide |
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Nana has come from the bathroom for a sponge, and she _____ with his trousers...
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collide |
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unbelieving
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incredulous |
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Mr. Darling: (_____) A face at the window, three floors up? Pooh!
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incredulous |
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to calm down
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soothe |
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Mr. Darling: Cowardly, cowardly custard...
Mrs. Darling: George, I'm not. Mr. Darling: Then why not tell? (Thus cleverly _____ she goes on) |
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soothed |
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The unroll and examine the _____ thing, which is not more material than a puff of smoke.
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flimsy |
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likely to fall apart; insubstantial; not well built
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flimsy |
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crying, moaning loudly
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lamentation |
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Mrs. Darling: (smelling the bowl) George, it is your medicine!
The children break into _____. |
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lamentation |
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to beg
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implore |
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He gives his wife an _____ look; he is begging for one smile but does not get it.
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imploring |
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to spoil someone; to treat someone with tender, loving care
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coddle |
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Mr. Darling: _____ her; nobody _____ me. Oh dear no. I am only the breadwinner. Why should I be _____
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coddle/coddles/coddled |
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They are not nearly so _____ in the air as Peter, but their heads have bumped the ceiling, and there is nothing more delicious than that.
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elegant |
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graceful, lovely
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elegant |
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partner (often in crime)
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accomplice |
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Peter's _____, the little star, has seen them coming, and again the window blows open.
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accomplice |
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He seizes Nana's collar in an iron grip and amid the cries of his progeny, drags her from the room. They listen, for her remonstrances are not _____.
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inaudible |
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cannot be heard
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inaudible |
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to walk in a tired manner
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trudge |
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The first thing seen is merely some whitish dots _____ along...they are probably fairies of the commoner sort...
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trudging |
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long, tiresome, boring
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tedious |
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...the Never Land is very compact, not large and sprawly with _____ distances between one adventure and another...
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tedious |
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dejected, dispirited, discouraged
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crestfallen |
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pool of water separated from sea by dunes
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lagoon |
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recurring irregularly, stop/start/stop/start
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fitful |
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to enchant; cast a spell over
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bewitch |
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a sandbank or sand bar; any large number of persons or things.
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shoal |
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cave, cavern
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grotto |
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She slips through their arms into the water...They climb onto the rock ___________.
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crestfallen |
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It is the end of a long playful day on the __________.
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lagoon |
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When the weather grows cold, mermaids migrate to the other side of the world, and he once went with a great _____ of them half the way.
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shoal |
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From the coral grottoes beneath the lagoon, where are the mermaids' bedchambers, comes ________ music.
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fitful |
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long locks, curls of hair
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tresses |
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One of the most _________ of these blue-eyed creatures is lying lazily on Marooners' Rock...
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bewitch |
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From the coral _________ beneath the lagoon, where are the mermaids' bedchambers, comes fitful music.
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grotto |
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She is combing her long ______ and noting effects in a transparent shell.
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tresses |
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Sailors are _____ when their captain leaves them on a rock and sails away.
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marooned |
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to put ashore and abandon on a desolate island or coast by way of punishment
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maroon |
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Wendy is _____ as she surveys the rock...
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uneasy |
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nervous, anxious
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uneasy |
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What has come is a cold shiver across the waters which has sent all the wiser mermaids to their coral _____.
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recesses |
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a secluded or inner area or part
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recesses |
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to climb
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scale |
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Hook is swimming, and they help him _____ the rock.
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scale |
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huge, enormous
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immense |
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Hook: (addressing the ______) Spirit that haunts this dark lagoon tonight, dost hear me?
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immense/immensities |
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open or unqualified contempt
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scorn |
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Hook: Vegetable?
Peter: No. Hook: Mineral? Peter: No. Hook: Animal? Peter: (after a hurried conversation with Tootles) Yes. Hook: Man? Peter: (with ______) No. |
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To confuse or befuddle
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bewilder |
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Peter is untouched, but unfairness is what he never can get used to, and in his ______ he rolls off the rock.
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bewilder/bewilderment |
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The crocodile, whose tick has been drowned in the strife, rears its jaw, and Hook, who has almost stepped into them is _____ by it to land.
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pursue |
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to chase
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pursue |
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The dinghy disappears with its load, whose hearts would sink it if they knew of the _____ of Wendy and her captain.
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peril |
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danger
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peril |
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Pale rays of light mingle with the moving clouds, and from the coral grottoes is to be heard a sound, at once the most musical and the most ______ to be heard in the Never Land, the mermaids calling to the moon to rise.
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melancholy |
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sadness; a gloomy state of mind, esp. when habitual or prolonged; depression
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Peter is afraid at last, and a _____ runs through him, like a shudder passing over the lagoon...
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tremor |
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involuntary shaking of the body or limbs, as from disease, fear, weakness, or excitement; a fit of trembling.
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tremor |
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Peter takes off his shirt and unfurls it as a sail. His _____ tacks, and he passes from sight, naked and victorious.
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vessel |
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ship
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vessel |
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at the same time
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simultaneously |
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extraordinarily beautiful, fine
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exquisite |
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a decorative light fixture suspended from a ceiling, usually having branched supports for a number of lights.
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chandelier |
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pleased with oneself often without awareness of some potential danger or defect; self-satisfied
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complacently |
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a device, especially a mechanical one.
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contrivance |
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hearty or keen enjoyment
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gusto |
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to make a loud, rattling sound
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clatter |
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to take hold of suddenly or forcibly; grab
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seize |
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to become quiet, less active, or less violent
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subside |
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an unmarried woman
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spinster |
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unable or refusing to speak
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mute (adj) |
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to lay flat, as on the ground, face down
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prostrate (v, adv) |
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polite
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courteous (adj) |
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to search into or examine thoroughly
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probe (v) |
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to listen secretly to a private conversation
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eavesdrop (v) |
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to harass or urge persistently; pester; nag
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badger (v) |
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to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent
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falter (v) |
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to impress deeply; astonish with delight
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dazzle (v) |
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a sudden feeling of apprehensive uneasiness; misgiving
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