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Keen
Example: A good driver is keen while they are on the road.
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Sly
What is subtle?
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Bitter regret
What is remorse?
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Quitting a job
What is an example of termination?
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Censorship
This is seen in "The Censors" when the main character becomes a censor who checks letters and writing for oppressive words, ideas or images.
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Rouse
Example: He roused me into believing that he had made the cake himself.
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Scheme
What is conniving?
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turned away in disgust
What is revolted?
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Implore
Someone begging for you to share your food at lunch.
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Reel
In "The Sniper" the Republican Sniper hit his enemy and "he was reeling over the parapet [low wall] in his death agony"
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Irreproachable
Example: My mom believes that my twin is irreproachable
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Decrease
What is subside?
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intended to overthrow established authority
What is subversive?
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Enveloped
Someone's head being covered before they are kidnapped.
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Repose
Fortunato drinks "to the buried that repose around" them.
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Accost
Example: The robber accosted the cashier when he robbed the bank.
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Enthusiast
What is fanatic? What is zeal?
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to fall off balance; lurch
What is reel?
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Spasmodically
Someone tapping their finger to random beats.
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Lodge
A bullet lodged in the Republican sniper's bone in "The Sniper"
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Beleaguered
Example: The enemy had beleaguered our fort so we were trapped.
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Hinder
What is preclude?
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severe, stern
What is ascetic?
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Virtuoso
Someone who is Shakespeare scholar (they have a masterly knowledge of Shakespeare).
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Staidness
One of the buildings in "The Censors" is described as having "a festive air on the outside that contrasted with its' inner staidness"
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