Monkey's Paw Vocabulary

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compensation

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payment

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placidly

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quietly

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presumptuous

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overconfident

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talisman

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charm

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credulity

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belief

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ominous

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threatening or foreshadowing evil

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fervent

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having or displaying a passionate intensity

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malign

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to speak about someone in a spitefully critical manner

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retribution

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punishment inflicted on someone as vengeance for a wrong

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prosaic

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having the style or diction of prose; lacking poetic beauty