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What is sheer?
She stood on the wide _______________, where it seemed all of Havana was on display.
What is promenade?
Unconscious
What is catatonic?
There was an old Arabic _______________ that said, "Close the door that brings the wind and relax," and that's exactly what they did; while the rest of the Middle East was rioting, Syrians stayed inside and locked their doors and waited to see what would happen.
What is proverb?
Having patches colored differently and usually brightly
What is calico?
A trinket thought to be a magical protection against evil
What is talisman?
The bright yellow Star of David armbands that the Landaus wore were like magical _________ that made them disappear.
What is talisman?
Stumble
What is lurch?
By now, May of 1939, most countries had stopped admitting Jewish ___________,or had lots of official applications you had to fill out and file and pay for before they would let you in.
What is refugee?
An exile who flees for safety
What is refugee?
A condensed but memorable saying embodying an important fact
What is proverb?
She leaped down off the hood of the car and pushed her way through the ____________.
What is pandemonium?
Scorch
What is sear?
Across the room, Waleed sat like a zombie in front of the television, watching a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon _________ into Syrian Arabic.
What is dub? (dubbed)
A state of complete confusion and disorder
What is pandemonium?
An industrial plant for purifying a crude substance
What is refinery?
She hadn’t gone nearly ___________ like Waleed, but at some point it had gotten bad enough that she just stopped talking about it.
What is catatonic?
Ragged
What is threadbare?
A skeleton in a ___________ suit three sizes too big for him.
What is threadbare?
A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk
What is promenade?
To provide movies with translated dialogue and narration
What is dub?
Aaron Landau’s eyes bulged from his ________ face as he turned to look at his children. Josef’s breath caught in his throat and Ruthie cried out and buried her face in Josef’s stomach as their papa pulled the two of them into a hug.
What is gaunt?
Frenzied
What is manic?
He felt the stirrings of _____________, of anger, of sympathy.
What is indignation?
A feeling of righteous anger
What is indignation?