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35 Cards in this Set
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“But this is March, ¡Maria santisima! Doesn’t she have seven more months of _____?”
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anonymity
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“We looked ___ at the road ahead, quadruplet angels.”
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blithely
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“Especially-though he doesn’t say this-if she’s going to censor the ____ of his several glasses of rum.”
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clairvoyance
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“I felt the same excitement as when I’d been able to ____ a wild bird or stray cat to eat out of my hand.”
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coax
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“What we did hear her say when the audience finally settled down was that we would be sent along with _____ from La Vega to her capital to perform the winning piece for Trujillo on his birthday.”
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delegation
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“I should have _____, I should not have seen what I saw.”
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desisted
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“There are the three pictures of the girls, old favorites that are now ______ on the poster’s every November, making these once intimate snapshots seem to famous to be the sisters she knew.”
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emblazoned
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“Sinita grabbed the towel and soap dish from her high table and joined the _____.”
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exodus
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“Otherwise, they go on and on, asking the most ______ questions.”
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impertinent
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"'Breathe slowly and deeply,' she ____,' slowly and deeply."
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intoned
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“On the back of an envelope left beside the museum phone, she has sketched on enormous tree, _____ with flowers, branched squirreling over the flap.”
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laden
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“He said that maybe I had a calling for the religious life that was ______ itself early on.”
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manifesting
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“’Always,’ Dede affirms, used to fixed, _____ language around interviewers and mythologizes of her sisters.”
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monolithic
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“Now after thirty-four years, the commemorations and interviews and presentations of _____ honors have almost stooped, so that for months at a time Dede is able to take up her own life gain.”
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posthumous
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“My niece Minou tells me I am doing some _____ meditation, something like that.”
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transcending
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“Dede was full of ______ about Jaimito’s reckless driving, but now she found herself pressing her own foot on an invisible gas pedal.”
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admonitions
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“On the drive home, we all wept, unable to _____ each other, for my sisters had heard the same grim news from Pedrito and Leandro.”
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console
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“The _____ were killing me”
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diminutives
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“That week, Mama and Dede came back _____ from their weekly trip.”
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elated
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“Another time, in a misprint he hadn’t caught, Roberto’s article had stated that Senator Smathers had delivered an elegy, instead of a ___, of Trujillo before the joint member of the United States Congress.”
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eulogy
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“Rufino was _____.”
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indignant
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“______ materials, they called it.”
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Inflammatory
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“From puppydog devotion, he had moved on to a moody bossiness complicated with _____ periods of dogged remorse that would have been passion had there been less of his hunger and more of her desire in it.”
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intermittent
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"They lined up, laughing Padre Gabriel by opening their mouths for the scared Host and making ____ gestures with their tongues.
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Lewd
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“I felt giddy, as if I’d been granted a _____ from my worse fears.”
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reprieve
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"I forgot my earlier _____, and I blames papa for everything."
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ambivalence
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"Jaimito called Lio a trouble maker, accusing him of cooking up plots and then running off to some embassy for ____, leaving his comrades behind to rot in jail."
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asylum
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"But who could control Jaimito, only don of his ___ mother, unquestioned boss of his five sisters."
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doting
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"His young woman, his hurting Mama, his coupling me up while he went ______ around."
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gallivanting
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"'I have a lot of affection for Don Chiche,' Trujillo says, obviously enjoying the _____."
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homage
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"But they did want to know if me any kind of ______ materials."
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illicit
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"North to Tamboril and the mountain road to Puerto Plata, the rain drivers on, in every bonio and small conuco, and on out to the Atlantic where it is lost in the waves that rock the bones of ____ in the deepest sleep."
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martyr
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"Even Jaimito, who wouldn't give a rotten plantain for risky politics, felt Lio ____."
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plight
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"She didn't really know Lip was a communist, a ____, all the other awful things the editorial had called him."
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subversive
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"They came directly home, sobered by the ____ in which they had participated."
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travesty
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