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10 Cards in this Set
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delicacy
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Something pleasing, especially a choice food.
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She sufferend endlessly, feeling herself born for every delicacy and luxury.
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torment
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Great physical pain or mental suffering.
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All these things, of which other women of her class would not even have been aware, tormented and insulted her.
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exquisite
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Of special beauty or charm.
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She imagined exquisite pieces of furniture supporting priceless ornaments.
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gleaming
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Bright with a steady but subdued shining.
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She imagined gleaming silver.
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eager
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enthusiastic, desirous
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She had longed so eagerly to charm.
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keen
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intense, as feeling or desire
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She had a rich friend whom she refused to visit, because she suffered so keenly when she returned home.
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exultant
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Marked by great joy or jubilation; triumphant.
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One evening her husband came home with an exultant air.
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swiftly
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quickly
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Swiftly she tore the paper and drew out a printed card.
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petulantly
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In a way that is irritable and impatient.
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Instead of being delighted, she flung the invitation petulantly across the table.
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falter
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To speak hesitatingly; stammer.
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"What's the matter with you? What's the matter with you?" he faltered.
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