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connecting without a break
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contiguous
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The only building in sight was a small block of yellow brick sitting on the edge of the waste land, a sort of compact Main Street ministering to it and contiguous to absolutely nothing.
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a short, witty poem expressing a single thought
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epigram
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This isn't just an epigram--life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.
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to perform without prior preparation
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extemporizing
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She was only extemporizing but a stirring warmth flowed from her as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words.
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haughtiness in bearing and attitude
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hauteur
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The intense vitality that had been so remarkable in the garage was converted into impressive hauteur.
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a physician who treats diseases of the eyes
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oculist
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Evidently some wild wag of an oculist set them there to fatten his practice... and then sank down himself into eternal blindness or forgot them and moved away.
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to take the place of
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peremptory
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Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished her peremptory heart.
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printed material, such as a newspaper
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rotogravure
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I knew now why her face was familiar--its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at... Palm Beach.
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feeling or showing haughty disdain
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supercilious
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Now he was a sturdy, straw haired man of thirty with a rather hard mouth and a supercilious manner.
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