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a person who embodies in the flesh a deity, spirit, or abstract quality

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generous or forgiving, especially toward a rival or less powerful person

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the utterance or bestowing of a blessing especially at the end of a religious service

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by chance rather than intention

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The _____________ limousine came rolling up the drive.

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The circle closed up again with a running murmur of ______________; it was a minute before I could see anything at all.

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Even when the East excited me most, even when I was most keenly aware of its superiority to the bored, sprawling, swollen towns beyond the Ohio, with their interminable

_______________ which spared only the children and the very old — even then it had always for me a quality of distortion.

"He had intended, probably, to take what he could and go—but now he found that he had committed himself to the following of a _________."

A small gust of wind that scarcely _______the surface was enough to disturb its accidental course with its accidental burden.

Most of those reports were a nightmare—grotesque, _________, eager and untrue.

Flushed with his impassioned ________, he saw himself standing alone on the last barrier of civilization.

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an inn with a central courtyard for travelers providing accommodations for large groups

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"...for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something _______________ to his capacity for wonder."

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"And the _____________ authority of his voice set key for the newspaper reports that morning."

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"... but the policeman caught something in the tone and looked over with ________________ eyes."

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"His wife, and his mistress, until an hour ago secure and ________________, were slipping precipitately from his control."

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excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters

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strongly reminiscent or suggestive of

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a future event or circumstance which is possible but cannot be predicted with certainty