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Turn of the Screw
Pavlat, THE TURN OF THE SCREW, 90 words
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Acute | Sharp; intense; penetrating |
| Afresh | Anew; once more |
| Agitated | Excited; disturbed as by something irregular |
| Anecdote | A short account of an interesting or amusing incident |
| Appeal | An earnest request for aid |
| Apprehension | Anticipation of future trouble or evil; intuitive understanding or fear |
| Assent | Agreement; compliance |
| Bewildered | Confused |
| Blanched | Whitened; made pale, as by sickness or fear |
| Candor | Frankness; openness; sincerity |
| Certitude | Confidence; freedom from doubt |
| Concur | To agree |
| Confidence | Belief in the trustworthiness of another, as in keeping a secret |
| Consideration | Careful thought; something to keep in mind; also, thoughtfulness |
| Conveyance | Communication; also, a means of transportation |
| Cultivate | To prepare and work on in order to improve growth |
| Detachment | Indifference to others; aloofness from worldly affairs |
| Discernibly | Noticeably |
| Dissipate | To scatter; also, to spend wastefully |
| Divine | To discover; to perceive; also, of or pertaining to God; godlike; heavenly |
| Doctrine | A body of teachings advocated by a religion or government |
| Droll | Amusing in an odd way; quaintly witty |
| Especial | Exceptional; outstanding |
| Evocation | A calling forth; also, a re-creation via memory or imagination |
| Explicit | Fully and clearly expressed; exact, with nothing implied |
| Exquisite | Of special beauty; extraordinarily fine; also, serious, as of pain |
| Exultation | Joy, esp. due to success |
| Familiarity | Thorough knowledge; friendly relations; informality |
| Fancies | Whimsical images; mental conceptions |
| Flora | Plants, esp. the plants of a particular region or period |
| Flush | To blush |
| Frank | Direct; straightforward; sincere |
| Gaiety | Cheerfulness; festivity |
| Governess | A woman employed to raise and educate a child |
| Griffin | A monster with an eagle's head & wings and a lion's body |
| Grotesque | Fantastically ugly; bizarrely deformed |
| Haggard | Having a gaunt or emaciated appearance; wild-looking |
| Hearth | The floor of a fireplace, usu. extending a bit into the room |
| Homely | Unattractive; plain; common |
| Impudent | Disrespectful; rude |
| Indulge | To yield to; to satisfy; also, to be lenient |
| Inevitable | Unable to be avoided; certain; sure to happen |
| Inference | A logical conclusion reached via incomplete evidence |
| Infernal | Hellish; diabolical |
| Intercourse | Communication |
| Interval | A pause; a space between things or events |
| Intolerable | Unendurable; excessive |
| Lapse | To fall into disuse; to fall from a previous standard; also, an accidental slipping from a previous standard; a minor failure |
| Liability | A disadvantage; a hindrance |
| Linger | To stay longer than expected, as if from reluctance to leave; also, to continue |
| Literally | Actually; without exaggeration; not metaphorically |
| Markedly | Strikingly noticeably; prominently |
| Oblong | Resembling a rectangle, but with one side elongated |
| Overture | A new relationship; a proposal; an introductory part |
| Pang | A sudden feeling of emotional distress |
| Pertinence | Relevance; applicability |
| Portentous | Ominously significant, as if threatening harm; also, amazing |
| Precipitately | Recklessly; impetuously; rashly |
| Predecessor | A person who served in office before another person |
| Predicament | An unpleasantly difficult or perplexing situation |
| Pretension | A false or unsupportable claim to importance or merit |
| Pretext | An excuse; a fictitious reason |
| Prodigious | Extraordinary in size; marvelous |
| Propriety | Appropriateness to standards of behavior and manners |
| Queer | Strange; odd; suspicious |
| Recurrence | A return to a previous condition; a repeated happening |
| Repast | A meal |
| Reticence | The state of being reluctant to speak |
| Revelation | A dramatic disclosure of something that was previously secret |
| Scant | Barely sufficient; limited; inadequate |
| Scruple | A moral doubt or hesitation that inhibits certain actions |
| Serenity | Calmness; tranquility |
| Singular | Extraordinary; exceptional; odd; unique |
| Sociability | Friendliness; conviviality |
| Spite | Malice; ill will; a grudge; defiance |
| Stupefaction | Overwhelming amazement and senselessness |
| Subsequent | Occurring later or after |
| Succumb | To yield; to submit; to surrender |
| Suffice | To be enough; to serve; to satisfy |
| Supposition | Assumption; hypothesis |
| Tacit | Understood but not openly expressed; implied |
| Throb | To beat or pulse with increased force |
| Timidity | Fear; also, shyness |
| Tremor | Vibration; also, involuntary shaking of the limbs |
| Twilight | The dim period between sunset and nightfall |
| Unmolested | Unharmed; not disturbed or interfered with |
| Unutterable | Unspeakable; indescribable; beyond expression |
| Vivid | Bright; intense; lively |
| Vulgar | Crude; ordinary; boorish; characterized by lack of culture |
| Wretch | An unfortunate, unhappy person; also, a despicable person |
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eric.pavlat
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