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Prodigious

Lavishly fruitful

Extravagantly productive

Amazing; awesomeBountiful

That which is prodigious fills us withastonishment.


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Prodigious

Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)

prodigious speed

prodigious strength


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Prodigious

Paradise Lost (John Milton)

a bridge of length prodigious


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Prodigious

Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen)

I like them prodigiously.


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Prodigious

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (MarkTwain)

Each lad had an income now that wassimply prodigious a dollar for everyweekday.


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Prodigious

Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

prodigious magnitude prodigious hurry

a prodigious, blood-dripping mass


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Prodigious

The Red Badge of Courage (StephenCrane)

the prodigious uproar of battle


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Prodigious

The Crucible (Arthur Miller)

There is prodigious fear in this court.


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Prodigious

Catch-22 (Joseph Heller)

Major Major grew despondent as hewatched a simple communications swellprodigiously into huge manuscripts.


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Prodigious

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man(James Joyce)

The brimstone too which burns there insuch prodigious quantity fills all hell with itsintolerable stench.


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Profound

Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)

profound stillness profoundly pensive

profound darkness attitude profound meaning

profound tone

profound glance profound anguish

profound serenity


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Profound


darkness profound

the void profound


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Profound

Moby Dick (Herman Melville)

the profound unbounded seaThe profound calm which only apparently

precedes and prophesies of a storm is

perhaps more awful than the storm itself.


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Profound

A Vindication of the Rights of Women

(Mary Wollenscraft)

profound thinker

profound reflection

profound secret profound ignorance


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Sublime


a celestial colloquy sublime


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Sublime

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)

the sublime shape of the mountains I cannot believe that I am the same

monster whose thoughts were once filled

with sublime visions of transcendentbeauty.


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Sublime


Aarfys joy was sublime.


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Sublime

Uncle Toms Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe)

Deaththat mysterious and sublimechange, passed over his face.


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Sublime

The Vindication of the Rights of Women

(Mary Wollenscraft)

the sublime gloom of tendermelancholy


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Sublime

Gullivers Travels (Jonathan Swift)

His Most Sublime Majesty


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Sublime

Peter Pan (James Barrie)

our sublime gloom of tendermelancholy


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Clamor: To create noise becauseof eagerness

Hamlet:

an instant burst of clamor


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Paradise Lost:

The savage clamor drowned both harp andvoice.


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Pride and Prejudice:

the clamorous happiness of Lydia herselfin bidding farewell


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Moby Dick:

The sailors clamored for pardon on thedeck of the dock.


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One Writers Beginnings (Eurdora Welty):

From the first, I was clamorous to learn.


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Native Son (Richard Wright):

His feelings clamored for an answer hismind could not give.


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Animal Farm :

The animals clamored to be allowed to goout.


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Lord Jim:

human beings clamorous with thedistress of cries for help.


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The Scarlet Letter:

the clamor of fiends and night hags


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Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott):

the clamorous yells and barkings of allthe dogs in the hall


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Condescend: To lower oneselfsocially; to speak down to

Vindication of the Rights of Women (Marry

Wollenscraft)

Men should speak to women in thelanguage of truth and soberness, andaway with the lullaby strains of

condescending endearments.


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Moby Dick:

a sort of condescending concern andcompassion


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Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie)

He would answer condescendingly.


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The Advantures of Tom Sawyer:

These two great commanders did notcondescend to fight in person.


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Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte)

She was forced to condescend to ourcompany.


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Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson)

Come in, Mr. Dance, says he, verystately and condescending.


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a tone of respectful condescension


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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Tom Buchanan smiled with jovialcondescension.


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To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee)

Jem condescended to take me to school

on the first day.


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Languor: A state of lazy slowness;torpor; lassitude; inertia

Moby Dick

Everything resolves you into languor.

L A f l l


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Uncle Toms Cabin

She opened her eyes in a state ofdreamy, delicious languor.

L A f l l


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Languor: A state of lazy slowness;lassitude; torpor; inertia

The Return of the Native (Joseph Conrad)

Eustasia Vye drooped again into languor.

L A f l l


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Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde (Robert LouisStevenson)

a man languidly weak in both body andmind

L A f l l


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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)

dreamy, languorous eyes

L A t t f l l


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The Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison)

record shop blaring languid blues

L A t t f l l


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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (JamesJoyce)

the languor of sleep

a languid weariness

languid grace

the languor of afternoon music

A t Sh i t


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Acute: Sharp; intenseLatin: acure: to sharpen

Gullivers Travels:

I found large creatures whose optics werenot so acute as mine.

A t Sh i t


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Pride and Prejudice

Her head ached acutely.

A t Sh i t


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The Last of the Mohecans:

senses rendered doubly acute bydanger

A t Sh i t


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The Scarlet Letter:

a crisis of acutest pain

A t Sh i t


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A Tale Of Two Cities:

a prolonged shock of greatacuteness

Ac te Sharp intense


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Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde:

the acuteness of this remorse

Acute: Sharp; intense


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Animal Farm:

Every mouthful of food was an acutepleasure.



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Song of Solomon:

the longing to leave becomes acute



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Native Son

feeling acutely sorry



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On the Beach

acutely nervous


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Allude: to refer obliquely to

Pride and Prejudice:

subjects, which her sisters would nothave alluded to for all the world.


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Jane Eyre:

No new allusion was made to the subjectover which I brooded.


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Uncle Toms Cabin:

He has never alluded to the subject again.


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Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde:

I beg that you will spare me any allusions toone whom I thought dead.


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Heart of Darkness:

alluding with the toss of his head to thetumult in the station yard


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A Separate Peace:

He alluded to last night only by askinghow Phineas was.


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A Passage to India:

They attacked one another with privateallusions.


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Catch-22:

The vast majority consisted of allusions to

prior communications which Major Majorhad never heard of.


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Other lude..words

Interlude

Illusion

Elude: to dodge; to escape; evade:

He tried to elude the police.

In high school, I eluded chemistry.

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