STEM definition:

before

STEM definition:

choose, gather

STEM definition:

born

STEM definition:

under

TERM definition:

one's signature

TERM definition:

self-acting

TERM definition:

to choose

TERM definition:

to gather

TERM definition:

to indicate beforehand

TERM definition:

a preface (an introductory part, as in a book or speech, etc.)

TERM definition:

being the place or environment in which a person was born

TERM definition:

as if from the beginning

TERM definition:

underground

TERM definition:

difficult to detect, elusive

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Music can help to _______________ events in a movie to help signal impending danger, such as the infamous Jaws movie theme.

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But these observations were too _______________ for a six-year-old, especially one who wanted to believe.

from: Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

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Many students tend to skip the _______________ at the beginning of a long novel, or they go back and read it later.

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Mathematician Doris Cohen, a ________ New Yorker who started working at the laboratory in the late 1930s, was for many years the NACA's lone female author.

(NACA = National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics)

~from: Hidden Figures by Margot Lee Shetterly

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Professor Lupin gave a snort. "Who's that?" said Malfoy, taking an __________ step backward as he spotted Lupin.

from: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J.K. Rowling