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Quote

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Quotation citation

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Mousy

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(Of hair) of a dull light brown color

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Contempt

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Disdain, hatred

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Startle

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Suprise, scare, alarm

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Squatted

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Crouch or sit with ones knees bent and ones heels close to or touching ones buttocks or the back of one hight

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Collapsing

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Crumpling breaking down caving in

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Neato

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Inf. Cool, great super

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Perpetual

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Eternal, never ending

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Eerie

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Weird, odd

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Lumbering

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Clumsy, awkward, heavy-fooled, slow

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Suburban

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Coming from a residential area

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Dismally

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Depressing uninvinting unwelcoming

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Sameness

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A lack of variety or change ; monotony

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Charm

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A small ornament worn on necklace or bracelet

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Bittersweet

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Producing or expressing a mixture of pain and pleasure

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Hail

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Little pieces of frozen rain

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Ostracized

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Excluded from society

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Laced

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Intertwined, mixed in

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Partook (v. Partake)

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Took part in, participed in

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Shattered

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Broke, disintegrated

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Gagged

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Suffocated, asphyxiated

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Petulant

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Cranky, grouchy, irritable

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Hovering

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Floating

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Sinkhole

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A cavity in the ground, esp. In limestone bedrock, caused by water erosion and providing a route for surface water to disappear underground

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Aftermath

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He consequences or after effects of an event, esp. When unpleasant; repercussions

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Squinted

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Look at someone with eyes partly closed in an attempt to see more clearly

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Flushed

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(A persons face) became red

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Overwhelmed

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Left him moved, speechless

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Obnoxious

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Unpleasant

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Formerly

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Previously, once

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Hand-me-downs

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Secondhand clothes

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Crocuslike

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Ever-growing

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Flee

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Run away from, espace from

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Wobbly

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Unstable

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Tremor

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Trembling; shaking

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Boundaries

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Limits

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Damp

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Wet; humid

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Womb

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The uterus of the human female and certain higher mammals

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Stalks

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The stem or main axis of a plant

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Dumbfounded

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Astonished; speechless

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Snow rain

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Description of the weather matches the emotional environment of the plot (traditional literary device called pathetic Fallacy)
Snow=death (Susie)
Penguins trapped in a snow globe
Snow covers the evidence of Susie murder
Snow turns to rain; rain washes way the dirt
(Washes the pain away)
Water: purification

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Sinkhole

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Represents the process through which certain thoughts take time to sink into consciousness
Metaphor for grief (drowned in grief/ let things sink in)

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Heaven

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Society’s traditional view of heaven
Sebold’s afterlife isn’t perfect; is it perfect?
Why is there pain in heaven?

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Perfect/imperfect world

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Trapped in a perfect world?
Suburbs: perfect life, perfect escape
Perfect wife not that Peres
World can coexist (a world within a world)

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Counting

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In the novel everyone counts:
Harvey, Ruth, Buckley, jack, Susie and Len
Characters count for:
Experiences, bodies, beliefs, dis beliefs

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Alice sebold

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Grew up in the suburbs
Survivor of a violent rape in university
Heroin addiction, self abuse
Went to ny 10 year to get published
She hated the city so she went in an artist colony
Master degree in university
First book: her brutal assault, in all books she shows faith and humanity even after unimaginable circumstances

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Primary themes

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Learning to live with loss

Learning to let go

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Subjects

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Grief
Hope
Crime
Family
Escapism
Tiredness
Acceptance
Loss
Helplessness
Rape
Murder
Justice
Love
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Themes

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Understanding why people become deviants and murderer
The individualizations of grief
Explaining the suburban housewife syndrome
Escaping the pain of loss
The oddity of suburban
Breaking Barriere, stereotypne (gender, ethnicity, racial)
Sexual abuse

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Stage of grief

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Denial/isolation
Anger
Bargaining
Depression
Acceptance
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Sebold stage of grief

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Belief/disbelief
Brokenness
Transition/transdescendance
Connections
Letting go
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Denial

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World meaning less and overwhelming
How can we go in, if we can go on, why we should go on
Try to find a way simply to get through the day
Accepting the reality of the loss and start to ask yourself question to begin the healing process
In the process, all the feelings you were denying begin to surface
Lost at sea, no connections to anything

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Anger

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Necessary stage of healing process
The more you truly feel, the more it will begin to dissipate, heal
Other emotions under anger and it has no limits
Can get to your entourage
Underneath anger is your pain
Society fear anger, which it is normal to feel deserted and abandoned
Connection from you to them (other people), shows intensity of your love
Connection made from the strength of anger feels better than nothing
Usually know more about suppressing anger than feeling it

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Bargaining

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What if I devoted my life
What if a did that
If only, what if, what could we have done differently
Want life to retune the way it was
Guilts is bargaining companion
May bargain with the pain
Stages are responds that can last minute, month, hour
Not feeling in a linear function, feel one, get back, another

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Depression

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Depressive stage
Feel like it will last forever
Appropriate respond to a great loss
Withdraw from life
Why should we go on?
Often see as to be fixed, question to ask: is your situation actually depressing? Kind of normal after a loss, realization that your loved one is gone is depressing
Depression necessary step in healing process

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Acceptance

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Not being alright or ok with what has happened
Most people never feel ok about that
Accepting the reality that our loved one is physically gone and reconizing that this new reality is the permanent reality
We will never like this or think it’s ok, but we learn to live with it by reajusting
As we begin to live our new life and having fun we often feel like betraying our love one
Instead of denying our feeling, we listen to our need
We composate with other things, friendship, relationships, new connections, dependencies
We begin to live again but we cannot do so until we have given grief it’s time

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Unsightly

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Unattractive

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Obsequious

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Obedient, compliant with someone else’s orders or wishes

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Feigning

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To pretend, to simulate, to bluff

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Aisle

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Passageway dividing something, like an alley, corridor or hallway

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Vehemently

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Showing strong feeling; forceful or passionate

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Yearning

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A feeling of intense longing for something

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Errands

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A short trip made to deliver or collect something, especially on someone else’s behalf

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Mausoleum

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A large stately to,b or a building housing such a tomb or several tombs

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Innards

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Internal organs or intrails; the internal workings of a device or machine

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Onslaught

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A fierce or destructive attack; an overwhelming large quantity of people or things

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Impromptu

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Improvised; spontaneous; unplanned

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Epidermis

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Outer layer of the skin

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Copious

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Abundant in supply; plenty; full

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Painstakingly

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Very careful and thorough

A painstaking search: examination done really carefully

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Queried

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Questioned, especially when expressing doubt or requestin information

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Hoarded

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Collected and kept

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Incredulous

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To be unable to believe something

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Deafening

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A very loud noise

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Pilgrimage

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A journey that someone makes to a place that is very important to them

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Disingenuous

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Slightly, dishonest, insincere

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Strayed

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Wandered away from where someone or something is supposed to be

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Inextricably

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Unavoidably; inescapably (impossible to escape from)

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Heightened

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Increased in intensity or concentration

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Exhaust

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The pipe that carries the gas out of the engines car

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Noxious

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Harmful or injurious to health (noxious fumes)

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Embroidered

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Decorate (cloth) by sewing patterns on it with thread

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Circumscribed

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Limited, restricted

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Ubiquitous

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Existing or being everywhere at the same time

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Tenuous

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Insignificant or flimsy

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Warily

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Carefully

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Knapsack

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A canvas or leather bag that you carry on your back or over your shoulders

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Dwindling

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It becomes smaller, weaker or less in number

Decreasing shrinking

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Beseeching

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Asking urgently and fervently to do something

Imploring

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Innocuous

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Gracious, innocent

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Whined

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Complained, cried

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Pruning

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Trimming, cutting parts of plants

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Queasy

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Not feeling well, not comfortable

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AWOL

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Absent but without intent to desert

Absent without officially leaving

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Accrued

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Periodically accumulated over time

Accrued interest; accrued leave

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Wanderlust

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Very strong or irreducible desire to travel

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Half-mast

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The position of a flag which is being flown some way below the top of its staff as a mark of respect for a person who has died

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Seized up

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Froze or halted; grinded suddenly to a stop (my heart seized up)

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Thighs

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The part of the human between the hip and the knee

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Seedier

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Poorly kept; run-down; shabby

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Cork

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Bottle stopper made a light of brown substance obtained from the outer layer of the bark of the cork oak

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Coming of age

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The age or occasion when on formally becomes an adult

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Abhor

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Hate, detest

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Unbeknownst

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Without the knowledge of; without knowing

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Landslide

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The sliding down of a mass of earth or rock from a mountain or cliff

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Lament

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A passionate expression of grief; a song,make ce of music, or poem expressing grief or regret

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