"Trees burst forth from broken windows and skins of scabrous vine gnawed at the walls like antibodies attacking a virus—as if nature itself had waged war against it..."

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"At base, it is a simple dichotomy: there are the coerlfolc...and there is the hidden branch...."

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“Then it’s true!” I said. “You are the Bird!”

“It’s a moniker I tolerate but do not encourage..."

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“He’s American,” observed a man sporting a prodigious beard. “Army, could be.”

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“Why, Miss Bloom,” said Miss Peregrine,letting out a booming laugh. “What undiluted balderdash! "

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"I think they worried that my grandfather would infect me with some incurable dreaminess from which I’d never recover—that these fantasies were somehow inoculating me against more practical ambitions—so one day my mother sat me down and explained that I couldn’t become an explorer because everything in the world had already been discovered."

THE UNDERLINED WORD AS USED IN THE TEXT MEANS ENDANGERING.

"There were shots of people cavorting on beaches and smiling on back porches, vistas from around the island, and lots of kids, posing in singles and pairs, informal snapshots...."

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"I discovered Emerson’s soporific qualities the hard way, by falling asleep with my face in the book, drooling all over an essay called “Self- Reliance”and having the vending-machine dream for the sixth time that week."

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"Daylight streamed through the hole onto a mound of splintered floorboards and broken glass from which rose coils of silty dust, pieces of torn carpet plastered here and there like scraps of desiccated meat."

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"She was dressed head to toe in black, her hair pinned in a perfectly round knot atop her head, with lace gloves and a high-collared blouse fastened tightly at her throat—as fastidiously as the house itself."

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"It all seemed unfathomably exotic to a kid who’d never left Florida, and I begged him to regale me with stories whenever I saw him. He always obliged, telling them like secrets that could be entrusted only to me."

The word regale as used in the above quote means to make sleepy.

"I couldn’t square my grandfather’s idyllic stories with this nightmare house, nor the idea that he’d found refuge here with the sense of disaster that pervaded it."

THE WORD IDYLLIC AS USED IN THE ABOVE QUOTE MEANS PICTURESQUE OR CHARMING.

“Absolutely not,” I said with a wink,even though it was true. My dad liked to believe I was as popular and adventuresome as he was at my age—a myth it had always seemed easiest to perpetuate."

THE WORD "PERPETUATE" AS USED ABOVE MEANS "END THE LINE."

"Where I remembered patinas of green mold there was wallpaper and wainscoting and cheerful shades of paint. Flowers were arranged in vases."

THE WORD "PATINAS" AS USED IN QUOTE ABOVE MEANS "A FILM PRODUCED BY OXIDATION ON THE SURFACE OF OLD BRONZE"

"He could be so deucedly stubborn!”

THE WORD "DEUCEDLY" AS USED IN QUOTE ABOVE MEANS "DEVILISHLY."

"And then her expression turned grim, as if, in the brief silence between us, she had intuited the terrible thing I’d come to tell her."

THE WORD "INTUITED" AS USED IN ABOVE QUOTE MEANS "BEEN TOLD."

"I hoped, for his sake and mine, that the grueling thirty-six hours we’d braved to get this far—three airplanes, two layovers, shift-napping in grubby train stations, and now this interminable gut-churning ferry ride—would pay off."

THE UNDERLINED WORD ABOVE MEANS "COMFORTABLE."

"Now, I’m no hotel connoisseur, but one glance at the weathered sign told me that our stay was unlikely to be a four-star mints-on-your- pillow-type experience."

THE WORD UNDERLINED IN THE TEXT ABOVE MEANS "IDIOT."

“Oh well, there’s always next year,” when all the lights flooded on to reveal streamers, balloons, and a motley assortment of aunts, uncles, cousins I rarely spoke to...."

THE WORD "MOTLEY" AS USED ABOVE MEANS "MIXED."