Monkey's Paw Vocabulary

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compensation

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payment

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talisman

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charm

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prosaic

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ordinary

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presumptuous

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overconfident

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credulity

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belief

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superstition

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a belief in supernatural causality

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foreboding

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a feeling that something bad will happen

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fate

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the development of events beyond a person's control

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irony

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the expression of one's meaning by using language that normally signifies the opposite

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consequence

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a result or effect of an action or condition