Return Of The Native

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Fain

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gladly, williingly

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Pestilence

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a deadly, virulent disease

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Incidental

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happening or likely to happen in an unplanned or subordinate conjunction with something else

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Rectify

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to make right; correct

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Sear

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to burn, char the surface of; mark with a branding iron

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Heed

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to pay attention to; to listen to

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"Eustacia made no reply beyond that of a slight catch in her breath, as of one who _____ would speak but could not.

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fain

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"There escaped from Eustacia one of those shivering sighs which used to shake her like a _____ blast. She had not yet told."

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pestilent

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"But Yeobright was too deeply absorbed in the ramblings _____ to his remorseful state to notice her."

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incidental

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He continually bewailed his tardy journey to his mother's house, because it was an error which could never be _______,..

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rectified

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"...when she, _____ inwardly by a secret she dared not tell, declared that she could not give an opinion, he would say, "That's because you didn't know my mother's nature."

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seared

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"Clym went on without _____ his cousin."

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heeding

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Reprobation

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disapproval, condemnation, censure

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"But I am not worth receiving further proof even of Heaven's _____."

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reprobation

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Mitigate

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to lessen

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Clym's grief became ______ by wearing itself out.

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mitigated

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taciturnity

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disinclination to speak; dour, stern, silent

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. When his mind had been weaker his heart had led him to speak out; but reason having now somewhat recovered itself he sank into _____.

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taciturnity

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Lintel

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a horizontal architectural member supporting the weight above an opening, as a window or a door

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"He unlocked the gate, and found that a spider had already constructed a large web, tying the door to the _____, on the supposition that it was never to be opened again."

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lintel

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Indisposition

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a slight discomfort, illness

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"After this no kind of pain will ever seem more than an indisposition to me."

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indisposition

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Query

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a question

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"How to discover a solution to this riddle of death seemed a _____ of more importance than highest problems of the living. :

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query

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Insuavity

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lack of smoothness; lack of politeness

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"It partly explained the _____ with which the woman greeted him. "

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insuavity

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Sinister

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threatening or portending evil; evil, wicked; unfortunate

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"Something _____ is coming!"

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sinister

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Forsake, forsook

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past of "forsake" - to quit, leave entirely; abandon; desert

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"Whoever says he _____ her says what's not true."

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forsook

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Cataclysm

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any violent upheaval, esp. one of physical or social nature

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"..., there was only the imperturbable countenance of the heath, which, having defied the _____ onsets of centuries, reduced to insignificance by its seamed and antique features the wildest turmoil of a single man."

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cataclysmal

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Impassive

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without emotion

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"A consciousness of a vast _____ in all which lay around him took possession even of Yeobright in his wild walk towards Alderworth.:

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impassivity

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Enervate

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to lessen, deprive of force

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:"He had once before felt in his own person this overpowering of the fervid by the inanimate; but then it had tended to _____ a passion far sweeter than that which at present pervaded him."

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enervate

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Haggard

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gaunt, wasted, exhausted; wild, wild-looking

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He came behind her, and she saw his face in the glass. It was ashy, _____ and terrible.

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haggard

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Carmine

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reddish

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And while she looked the _____ flush with which warmth and sound sleep had suffused her cheeks and neck dissolved from view, and the deathlike pallor in his face flew across into hers."

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carmine

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Superstratum

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a layer on top

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The _______ of timidity which often overlies those who are daring and defiant at heart had been passed through...

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superstratum

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Mettlesome

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spirited, courageous

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"...and the _____ substance of the woman was reached."

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mettlesome

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Contrite

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asking forgiveness; repentant

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"! Instead of hating you I could, I think, mourn for and pity you, if you were _____, and would confess all. "

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contrite

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Ministration

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the act of giving care

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_____ of a Half-forgotten One

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Minstrations

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Heath

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a tract of open, uncultivated land; wasteland overgrown with shrubs

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Under the general name of "Egdon _____," which has been given to the sombre scene of the story, are united or typified _____ of various real names,

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Heath...heaths

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Congruity

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harmony; point of agreement

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It was a spot which returned upon the memory of those who loved it with an aspect of peculiar and kindly _____

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congruity

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Admonition

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caution; scolding

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Twilight combined with the scenery of Egdon Heath to evolve a thing majestic without severity, impressive without showiness, emphatic in its _____, grand in its simplicity.

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admonitions

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Haggard

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having a gaunt, wasted appearance

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_____ Egdon appealed to a subtler and scarcer instinct, to a more recently learnt emotion, than that which responds to the sort of beauty called charming and fair.

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haggard

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Orthodox

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according to the rule

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Indeed, it is a question if the exclusive reign of this _____ beauty is not approaching its last quarter.

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orthodox

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Chasten

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restrain, subdue

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. The time seems near, if it has not actually arrived, when the _____ sublimity of a moor, a sea, or a mountain will be all of nature that is absolutely in keeping with the moods of the more thinking among mankind.

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chastened

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Ascetic

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a person who leads an austerely simple life

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The most thoroughgoing _____ could feel that he had a natural right to wander on Egdon...

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ascetic

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Countenance

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facial expression

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As with some persons who have long lived apart, solitude seemed to look out of its _____.

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countenance

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Raiment

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clothing

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A person on a heath in _____ of modern cut and colours has more or less an anomalous look.

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raiment

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Anomaly

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a deviation from the rule

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A person on a heath in raiment of modern cut and colours has more or less an _____ look.

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anomalous

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Ballast

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added weight on a ship; anything that gives mental, moral, physical stability

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...to know that everything around and underneath had been from prehistoric times as unaltered as the stars overhead, gave _____ to the mind adrift on change...

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ballast

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Discern

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to make out visually; perceive

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At length he _____, a long distance in front of him, a moving spot...

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discerned

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Lurid

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glaringly vivid, sensational; terrible in intensity

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When he drew nearer he perceived it to be a spring van, ordinary in shape, but singular in colour, this being a _____ red.

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lurid

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Degree

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social position; station in life

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A certain well-to-do air about the man suggested that he was not poor for his _____.

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degree

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Tawny

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a dark yellow or yellowish-brown color

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There were no sounds but that of the booming wind upon the stretch of _____ herbage around them,

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tawny

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Contiguous

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side-by-side; touching

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in these lonely places wayfarers, after a first greeting, frequently plod on for miles without speech; _____ amounts to a tacit conversation ...

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contiguity

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Tacit

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silent but understood

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in these lonely places wayfarers, after a first greeting, frequently plod on for miles without speech; contiguity amounts to a _____ conversation...

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tacit

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Torpor

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sluggish inactivity; apathy; dormancy

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A condition of healthy life so nearly resembling the _____ of death is a noticeable thing of its sort...

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torpor

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Homogeneous

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composed of parts all of the same kind

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The scene was strangely _____, in that the vale, the upland, the barrow, and the figure above it amounted only to unity.

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homogeneous

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Sedulous

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careful; assiduous

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The only intelligible meaning in this sky-backed pantomime of silhouettes was that the woman had no relation to the forms who had taken her place, was _____ avoiding these, and had come thither for another object than theirs.

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sedulously

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Tincture

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to tint

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These _____ the silent bosom of the clouds above them...

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tinctured

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Ephemeral

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impermanent; transitory; fleeting

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These tinctured the silent bosom of the clouds above them and lit up their _____ caves...

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ephemeral

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Conflagration

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a large fire

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The first tall flame from Rainbarrow sprang into the sky, attracting all eyes that had been fixed on the distant _____ back to their own attempt in the same kind.

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conflagration

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livery

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outfit; clothing; dress uniform

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The cheerful blaze streaked the inner surface of the human circle...with its own gold _____...

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livery

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Pyre

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a pile of wood for burning

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The ashes of the original British ____ which blazed from that summit lay fresh and undisturbed in the barrow beneath their tread.

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pyre

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Ingress

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entrance

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Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter _____, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature.

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ingress

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Fiat

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a decree or order

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It indicates a spontaneous, Promethean rebelliousness against that _____ that this recurrent season shall bring foul times...

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fiat

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Fetter

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to tie down (to prevent from straying)

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Black chaos comes, and the _____ gods of the earth say, Let there be light.

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fettered

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Preternatural

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supernatural

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Those whom Nature had depicted as merely quaint became grotesque, the grotesque became _____; for all was in extremity.

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preternatural

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Venerable

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commanding respect because of great age

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Well, then, I spoke to her in my well-known merry way, and she said, 'O that what's shaped so _____ should talk like a fool!'—that's what she said to me.

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venerable

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Banns

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published notice of intent to marry

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I didn't know the two had walked together since last fall, when her aunt forbad the _____.

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banns

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Effulgence

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a brilliant radiance; a shining forth

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The clear, kingly _____ that had characterized the majority expressed a heath and furze country like their own...

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effulgence

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Transient

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temporary; moving from one place to another

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Fires of the last-mentioned materials were rare, and though comparatively small in magnitude beside the _____ blazes, now began to get the best of them by mere long continuance.

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transient

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Transcend

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to rise above

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Its nearness was such that, notwithstanding its actual smallness, its glow infinitely _____ theirs.

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transcended

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Perspicacity

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keenness of mental perception and understanding

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She was a woman of middle-age, with well-formed features of the type usually found where _____ is the chief quality enthroned within.

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perspicacity

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Mien

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facial expression

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She had something of an estranged _____; the solitude exhaled from the heath was concentrated in this face that had risen from it.

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mien

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Reticence

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shyness; reluctance to speak

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Her normal manner among the heathfolk had that _____ which results from the consciousness of superior communicative power.

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reticence

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Imprudent

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ill-advised; unwise; rash

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Their Tartarean situation might by some have been called an _____ one for two unattended women.

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imprudent

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Extemporize

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to make up on the spur of the moment

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On the door being opened she perceived at the end of the van an _____ couch...

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extemporized

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Abate

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to lessen

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The scarlet of her lips had not had time to _____...

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abate

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Ingenuous

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free from reserve, restraint; artless, innocent, naive

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An _____, transparent life was disclosed, as if the flow of her existence could be seen passing within her.

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ingenuous

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Profuse

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abundant; in great amount

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Next came into notice the more material qualities, among which was a _____ crop of hair impending over the top of his face...

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profuse

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Indignation

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righteous anger

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He always had his great _____ ready against anything underhand.

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indignation

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Conceit

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a fancy; a whimsical notion

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"He means, sir, that the lonesome dark-eyed creature up there that some say is a witch...is always up to some odd _____ or other; and so perhaps 'tis she."

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conceit

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Recapitulation

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repetition

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All then took their leave, wishing their entertainer long life and happiness as a married man, with _____ which occupied some time.

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recapitulation

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Declivity

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a downward slope of ground

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...the myriads of the whole _____ reached the woman's ear but as a shrivelled and intermittent recitative.

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declivity

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Recitative

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having to do with a recital

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So low was an individual sound from these that a combination of hundreds only just emerged from silence, and the myriads of the whole declivity reached the woman's ear but as a shrivelled and intermittent ______.

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recitative

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Fetishistic

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recourse to a fetish for magic; excessive attachment to something

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"The spirit moved them." A meaning of the phrase forced itself upon the attention; and an emotional listener's _____ mood might have ended in one of more advanced quality.

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fetishistic

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Incipient

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beginning

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The whole secret of following these _____ paths ... lay in the development of the sense of touch in the feet...

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incipient

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Undulate

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to move up and down like waves

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They roamed at large on the _____ of Egdon, but in numbers too few to detract much from the solitude.

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undulations

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Reverie

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a thoughtful daydream

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She was in a desponding _____.

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reverie

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bucolic

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of or pertaining to shepherds, pastoral

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In passing from the _____ to the intellectual life the intermediate stages are usually two at least, frequently many more; and one of those stages is almost sure to be worldly advanced.

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bucolic

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Aeschylus

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Greek tragedian, author of The Orestia

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What the Greeks only suspected we know well; what their _____imagined, our nursery children feel.

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Aeschylus

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scarification

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the making of scars, usually for personal decoration

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. To flinch, exclaim, or move a muscle of the face at _____ of the neck by the comb, would have been thought a gross breach of good manners, considering that Fairway did it all for nothing.

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scarifications

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effeminate

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overly feminine

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"All this was very depressing. But not so depressing as something I next perceived—that my business was the idlest, vainest, most _____ business that ever a man could be put to."

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effeminate

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deprecate

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to express earnest disapproval of

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A man who advocates aesthetic effort and ______ social effort is only likely to be understood by a class to which social effort has become a stale matter.

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deprecates

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eremite

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hermit; a person cut off from the rest of the world

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Yeobright preaching to the Egdon _____ that they might rise to a serene comprehensiveness without going through the process of enriching themselves...

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eremites

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empyrean

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highest heaven (Greek)

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...was not unlike arguing to ancient Chaldeans that in ascending from earth to the pure _____ it was not necessary to pass first into the intervening heaven of ether.

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empyrean

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ether

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the upper regions of space; the clear sky; the heavens;
the medium supposed by the ancients to fill the upper regions of space

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...was not unlike arguing to ancient Chaldeans that in ascending from earth to the pure empyrean it was not necessary to pass first into the intervening heaven of _____.

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ether

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mediocrity

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the state of having only moderate quality

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Its (the well-proportioned mind) usual blessings are happiness and ______.

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mediocrity

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uncouth

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rude, rustic, uncivilized; uncultured

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To many persons this Egdon was a place which had slipped out of its century generations ago, to intrude as an _____ object into this.

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uncouth

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subtle

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fine; requiring mental acuteness

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There was in his face that hopelessness of being understood which comes when the objector is constitutionally beyond the reach of a logic that, even under favouring conditions, is almost too coarse a vehicle for the _____ of the argument.

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subtlety

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travail

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painfully difficult work; to perform such work

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I get up every morning and see the whole creation groaning and ______ in pain...

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travailling

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libertine

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a free liver; one dissolute in the pursuit of pleasure

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...yet there am I, trafficking in glittering splendours with wealthy women and titled _____...

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libertines

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pander

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a person who caters to or profits from the weaknesses or vices of others

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and _____ to the meanest vanities

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pandering

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vanity

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something worthless, trivial, or pointless

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...and pandering to the meanest _____...

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vanities

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reciprocity

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give and take

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Now, Yeobright, having inherited some of these very instincts from the woman before him, could not fail to awaken a _____ in her through her feelings...

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reciprocity

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surplice

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a loose-fitting, broad-sleeved white vestment, worn over the cassock by clergy and choristers

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"The pa'son wears a suit of clothes under his _____!—I could see his black sleeves when he held up his arm."

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surplice

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provident

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having or showing foresight

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From every _____ point of view his mother was so undoubtedly right, that he was not without a sickness of heart in finding he could shake her.

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provident

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ominousness

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portending, foretelling danger; foreboding

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His mother's taciturnity was not without _____, but he appeared not to care.

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taciturnity

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enunciate

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to pronounce

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Yeobright had _____ the word "her" with a fervour which, in conversation with a mother, was absurdly indiscreet.

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enunciated

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fervor

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great warmth and intensity of feeling

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Yeobright had enunciated the word "her" with a _____ which, in conversation with a mother, was absurdly indiscreet.

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fervor

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verge

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edge

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The sky was clear from _____ to _____...

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verge

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sequestered

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hidden

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In returning to labour in this ______ spot he had anticipated an escape from the chafing of social necessities...

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sequestered

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preconcerted

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prearranged by agreement

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This marked a _____ moment—for the remote celestial phenomenon had been pressed into sublunary service as a lover's signal.

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preconcerted

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sublunary

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under the moon

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This marked a preconcerted moment—for the remote celestial phenomenon had been pressed into _____ service as a lover's signal.

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sublunary