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Uncanny
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Natural or extraordinary
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uncanny ability for finding the fun
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Sedate
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Dull
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It doesn’t matter how sedate the situation
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Staid
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Serious or dull
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how staid the participants
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Effervescence
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Sparkles
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I can bring effervescence to places where boredom seems to permeate the very walls.
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Permeate
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Penetrate
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I can bring effervescence to places where boredom seems to permeate the very walls.
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Indomitable
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Unconquerable
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am the indomitable mistress of mayhem.
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Plethora
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Excess a large number
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Examples? You ask for examples? No problem. I have a plethora of good stories.
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Ingenious
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Clever or inspired
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(I know. It was ingenious.)
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Execrable
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Disgusting
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I refused to give up until I persuaded even my execrable Uncle Morgan to play charades
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Eulogy
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Speech given at a funeral
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I even got the crowd giggling at the funeral of my best friend, Corinne, when I brought up her macaroni-and-cheese obsession during my eulogy.
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Appalling
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Awful or dreadful
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why was I sitting there for the fifth afternoon in a row, watching yet another appalling, mind-numbingly stupid soap opera?
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Sequestered
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Isolated or apart
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I was facing four whole weeks sequestered from all the new friends I’d made
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Impervious
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Solid or watertight
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unless, of course, I’m on the slopes with my snowboard, sporting some sleek, sexy and impervious boarding gear
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Tedious
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Boring and tiresome
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I had already read every last book I would be required to read in next semester’s American Writers course—ten heavy and mostly tedious tomes that were a serious pain to lug across the country—including the unabridged version of Moby-Dick, which, let me tell you, will make you want to scratch your brain out through your ear canal, it’s so oblique.
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Tomes
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Books
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I had already read every last book I would be required to read in next semester’s American Writers course—ten heavy and mostly tedious tomes that were a serious pain to lug across the country—including the unabridged version of Moby-Dick, which, let me tell you, will make you want to scratch your brain out through your ear canal, it’s so oblique.
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Unabridged
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Full length
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I had already read every last book I would be required to read in next semester’s American Writers course—ten heavy and mostly tedious tomes that were a serious pain to lug across the country—including the unabridged version of Moby-Dick, which, let me tell you, will make you want to scratch your brain out through your ear canal, it’s so oblique.
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Oblique
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Indirect or meandering
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I had already read every last book I would be required to read in next semester’s American Writers course—ten heavy and mostly tedious tomes that were a serious pain to lug across the country—including the unabridged version of Moby-Dick, which, let me tell you, will make you want to scratch your brain out through your ear canal, it’s so oblique.
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Expunged
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Wiped out
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My high school friends had been expunged from my life over the past semester, for which I take the brunt of the responsibility.
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Brunt
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Weight or burden
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My high school friends had been expunged from my life over the past semester, for which I take the brunt of the responsibility.
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Fastidious
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Careful or attentive
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I hadn’t been very fastidious about returning phone calls and emails
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Fortuitous
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Lucy
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I was overjoyed by my fortuitous choice of schools
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Turgid
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Stiff or stilted
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no one to distract me from the talk shows and the turgid dramas of these horrid over-actors
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Insipid
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Dull
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My life had become so insipid I could hardly even stand to be around myself.
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Extolling
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Praising
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Mom’s many awards of service, extolling her virtues as a policewoman, lined the walls
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Eclectic
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Varied or quirky
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The eclectic collection of books and videos we had amassed since I was a kid
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Effulgent
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Bright or beaming
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effulgent sun glinted off the snow
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Mustering
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Gathering
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Mustering all my energy, I pushed myself from the comfy faux-suede cushions
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Mortifying
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Shameful
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It was beyond mortifying.
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Nocturnal
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Active at night
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My skin was so pasty you’d think I was a nocturnal being.
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Ebullient
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Bright and cheerful
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At that moment one of those ebullient commercials came on the TV, touting the energizing effects of some nutritional supplement for the elderly.
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Epiphany
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Sudden realization or awakening
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Suddenly I had an epiphany.
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Excavate
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Dig out
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It took a few minutes to excavate my dirt bike from the back of the room
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Meticulously
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Carefully or thoroughly
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items that my mother couldn’t seem to part with but refused to keep in her meticulously clean house.
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Euphoria
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Exhilaration or joy
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The cold air in my lungs and the pumping of my muscles brought on a light-headed kind of euphoria
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Ruminate
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Think over
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There were certain things I just couldn’t ruminate on.
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Quaint
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Old-fashioned or charming
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my quaint hometown
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Obligatory
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Unavoidable or necessary
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lined with Mom-and-Pop businesses, the town library and the obligatory Gap.
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Novice
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Beginner
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Little did I know that Chad was just a smooching novice like me.
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Pealed
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Rang
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As I hit the corner the bell pealed behind me, signaling the end of classes.
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Momentum
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Force of motion
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My insane momentum toward the bottom of the hill sent my heart into my throat
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Endangering
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Putting in danger
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Endangering my own life
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Diligently
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Thoroughly or industriously
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My mother had worked so diligently to become the first female chief in the county
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Bliss
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Pleasure or enjoyment
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The only thing better than the bliss of a good ride was the reward of a steaming pepperoni pizza afterward
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Rustic
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Rural or old-fashioned
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into the rustic front office.
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Abdicated
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Abandoned
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Chief Knox, the man who had abdicated the position of police chief to my mother
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Indigenous
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Native
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fish indigenous to the lakes and streams of Connecticut
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Vestiges
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Traces or remnants
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My mother had taken the helm only last year, and redecorating hadn’t been her top priority, so the vestiges of Chief Knox remained
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Diminutive
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Tiny
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I said to the diminutive female officer who always worked the desk
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Infuse
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Fill or introduce
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Selma had managed to infuse her immediate area with some feminine touches
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Superfluous
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Extra or unnecessary
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She’d probably tossed any superfluous red and green candies first thing in the morning on December 26
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Trilled
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Spoke musically or warbled
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“Kim! It’s so good to see you!” she trilled,
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Derisive
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The two men were always derisive of Selma’s positive outlook
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Sophomoric
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Selma thought they were sophomoric and annoying
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Ascent
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I could tell he was jealous of my mother’s ascent to power
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Acrimonious
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their relationship was acrimonious.
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Malleable
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He just wasn’t very self-assured and was therefore malleable
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Ribald
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He thought Tad’s ribald sense of humor was hysterical and went along with whatever he did
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