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Clods |
R.R.E TATS pg 6 a lump of earth or clay.
Then he skipped out, and saw Sid just starting up the outside stairway that led to the back rooms on the second floor. _____ were handy and the air was full of them in a twinkling. They raged around Sid like a hail–storm; and before Aunt Polly could collect her surprised faculties and sally to the rescue, six or seven ______ had taken personal effect, and Tom was over the fence and gone. |
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Evanescent |
R.R.E TATS pg.6 soon passing out of sight, memory, or existence; quickly fading
A certain Amy Lawrence vanished out of his heart and left not even a memory of herself behind. He had thought he loved her to distraction; he had regarded his passion as adoration; and behold it was only a poor little __________ partiality. |
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Furtive |
R.R.E TATS pg.6 attempting to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or a belief that discovery would lead to trouble
He worshipped this new angel with _________ eye, till he saw that she had discovered him; then he pretended he did not know she was present, and began to "show off" in all sorts of absurd boyish ways, in order to win her admiration. |
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Anatomy |
R.R.E TATS pg.6 the branch of science concerned with the bodily structure of humans, animals, and other living organisms
But only for a minute—only while he could button the flower inside his jacket, next his heart—or next his stomach, possibly, for he was not much posted in _________, and not hypercritical, anyway. |
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Hypercritical |
R.R.E TATS pg.6 excessively and unreasonably critical, especially of small faults.
But only for a minute—only while he could button the flower inside his jacket, next his heart—or next his stomach, possibly, for he was not much posted in anatomy, and not ______________, anyway. |
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Ecstasies |
R.R.E TATS pg.6 an overwhelming feeling of great happiness or joyful excitement
Tom which was wellnigh unbearable. But Sid's fingers slipped and the bowl dropped and broke. Tom was in ___________. In such __________ that he even controlled his tongue and was silent. He said to himself that he would not speak a word, even when his aunt came in, but would sit perfectly still till she asked who did the mischief; and then he would tell, and there would be nothing so good in the world as to see that pet model "catch it."
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Beseeching |
R.R.E TATS pg.6 ask (someone) urgently and fervently to do something
He knew that a yearning glance fell upon him, now and then, through a film of tears, but he refused recognition of it. He pictured himself lying sick unto death and his aunt bending over him ______________ one little forgiving word, but he would turn his face to the wall, and die with that word unsaid. |
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Threadbare |
R.R.E TATS pg.6 (of cloth, clothing, or soft furnishings) becoming thin and tattered with age
Or would she turn coldly away like all the hollow world? This picture brought such an agony of pleasurable suffering that he worked it over and over again in his mind and set it up in new and varied lights, till he wore it _________ |
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Deluge |
R.R.E TATS pg.6 a severe flood.
The window went up, a maid–servant's discordant voice profaned the holy calm, and a _________ of water drenched the prone martyr's remains! |
