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Melancholy |
R.R.E TATS pg5 a feeling of pensive sadness, typically with no obvious cause
Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long–handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep ________ settled down upon his spirit. |
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Insignificant |
R.R.E TATS pg5 too small or unimportant to be worth consideration
Sighing, he dipped his brush and passed it along the topmost plank; repeated the operation; did it again; compared the ________ whitewashed streak with the far–reaching continent of unwhitewashed fence, and sat down on a tree–box discouraged |
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Skylarking |
R.R.E TATS pg5 pass time by playing tricks or practical jokes; indulge in horseplay
White, mulatto, and negro boys and girls were always there waiting their turns, resting, trading playthings, quarrelling, fighting, __________. And he remembered that although the pump was only a hundred and fifty yards off, Jim never got back with a bucket of water under an hour—and even then somebody generally had to go after him |
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Reluctance |
R.R.E TATS pg5 unwillingness or disinclination to do something
Tom gave up the brush with ___________ in his face, but alacrity in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents. |
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Alacrity |
R.R.E TATS pg5 brisk and cheerful readiness
Tom gave up the brush with reluctance in his face, but ___________ in his heart. And while the late steamer Big Missouri worked and sweated in the sun, the retired artist sat on a barrel in the shade close by, dangled his legs, munched his apple, and planned the slaughter of more innocents |
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Dilapidated |
R.R.E TATS pg5 very old, worn out He had besides the things before mentioned, twelve marbles, part of a jews–harp, a piece of blue bottle–glass to look through, a spool cannon, a key that wouldn't unlock anything, a fragment of chalk, a glass stopper of a decanter, a tin soldier, a couple of tadpoles, six fire–crackers, a kitten with only one eye, a brass doorknob, a dog–collar—but no dog—the handle of a knife, four pieces of orange–peel, and a ________________ old window sash. He had had a nice, good, idle time all the while—plenty of company —and the fence had three coats of whitewash on it! If he hadn't run out of whitewash he would have bankrupted every boy in the village. |
