Stella
“There he throws back his head like a baying hound and ____________ his wife's name: "Stella! Stella, sweetheart! Stella!””
bellows
“They catch each other in a _____________ embrace.”
spasmodic
a strong feeling of wanting to have something or wishing for something to happen
desire
exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing
delicate
possessed with an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone
infatuated
a quick look
glance
“And so it was I entered the broken world / To trace the _______________ company of love, its voice / An instant in the wind (I know not whither hurled) / But not for long to hold each desperate choice.”
visionary
“They _____________ at each other across the yellow-checked linoleum of the table.”
stare
shout loudly; emit a deep loud roar, typically in pain or anger
bellow
look at with fixed eyes
stare
“The name of the play we are reading is A Streetcar Named ________.”
Desire
composed of people from many parts of the world
cosmopolitan
professing feelings or virtues one does not have
hypocritical
thinking about or planning the future with imagination or wisdom; not practical or realizable; speculative
visionary
occurring or done in brief, irregular bursts
spasmodic
(especially in a woman) the quality of being attractively lively and animated
vivacity
“Her ______________ beauty must avoid a strong light.”
delicate
“In this part of New Orleans you are practically always just around the corner, or a few doors down the street, from a tinny piano being played with the __________ fluency of brown fingers.”
infatuated
“The white woman is Eunice, who occupies the upstairs flat; the colored woman a neighbor, for New Orleans is a _______________ city where there is a relatively warm and easy intermingling of races in the old part of town.”
cosmopolitan
reduce the force, effect, or value of
attenuate
“Oh, I’m not going to be ______________, I’m going to be honestly critical about it!”
hypocritical
“The sky that shows around the dim white building is a peculiarly tender blue, almost a turquoise, which invests the scene with a kind of lyricism and gracefully ____________ the atmosphere of decay.”
attenuates
“She laughs, but her _____________ at Blanche is a little anxious.”
glance
“She begins to speak, with feverish __________ as if she feared for either of them to stop and think.”
vivacity
Layton (6)
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