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massed trees or shrubs
“The roses were in bloom, two nightingales soliloquized in the boskage, a cuckoo was just going out of tune among the lime trees”(30). |
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an opening, hole, or gap; the space through which light passes in a camera
“A ball thrown up so as to land on the platform at the top of the tower rolled down into the interior, fell on a rapidly revolving disk, was hurled through one or other of the numerous apertures pierced in the cylindrical casing, and had to be caught”(30). |
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involving or limited to basic principles; undeveloped, immature, primary, crude, simple, incomplete
“In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of
about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely, and with all the focused attention of scientists intent on a labor of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game(31). |
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self-pitying, or tearfully sentimental, often through drunkenness
“ ‘I always think,’ the Director was continuing in the same rather maudlin tone, when he was interrupted by a loud boo-hooing”(31). |
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the state of being unwilling or unable to believe something
“A look of astonished incredulity appeared on the faces of his listeners”(32). |
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expressing feelings of gratitude, pleasure or approval in an unrestrained and heartfelt manner; extravagant, unrestrained, lavish, expansive, wordy
“The D.H.C. had at that moment sat down on one of the steel and rubber benches conveniently scattered through the gardens; but at the sight of the stranger, he sprang to his feet and darted forward, his hand outstretched, smiling with all his teeth, effusive” (33). |
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contemptuous ridicule or mockery; sneers, taunts, disdain, disrespect, insults
“ ‘It’s all right , Director,” he said in a tone of faint derision, ‘I won’t corrupt them’”(35). |
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(of an animal) bringing forth live young that have developed inside the body of the parent
“ ‘Try to realize what it was like to have a viviparous mother’”(36). |
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the act of bringing to mind, or of recalling to the conscious mind
“(The Controller’s evocation was so vivid that one of the boys, more sensitive than the rest, turned pale at the mere description and was on the point of being sick)”(37). |
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extremely dirty and unpleasant, usually as the result of poverty and neglect; showing a contemptible lack of moral standards
“ ‘And home was as squalid psychically as physically” (37). |
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a dunghill(pile of manure), or refuse(garbage) heap
“ ‘Psychically, it was a rabbit hole, a midden, hot with the frictions of tightly packed life, reeking
with emotion’” (37). |
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