flush. "It was a cold fall day with fire in the room and her cheeks flushed."
turn red, as if in embarrassment or shame
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eraser
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magnet
Take 10 points!
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gift
Win 25 points!
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lifesaver
Give 15 points!
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seesaw
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gold
Win 50 points!
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gift
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banana
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pneumatic. "He stopped at the garage for a pneumatic mattress that had amused his guests during the summer, and the chauffeur helped him pump it up."
relating to or using air or a similar gas
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shark
Other team loses 20 points!
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banana
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sneer. "However, that was my fault, for he was one of those who used to sneer most bitterly at Gatsby on the courage of Gatsby's liquor and I should have known better than to call him."
a facial expression of contempt or scorn
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deranged. "So Wilson was reduced to a man " deranged by grief" in order that the case might remain in its simplest form."
driven insane
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elocution. "Practice elocution, poise and how to attain it 5.00-6.00"
an expert manner of speaking involving control of voice
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ashen. "A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees."
pale from illness or emotion
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superfluous. "That request seemed superfluous when I wrote it."
more than is needed, desired, or required
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amorphous. "A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about . . . like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees."
having no definite form or distinct shape
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transitory. "pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent,"
lasting a very short time
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vain. "But when I'd shouted "Hello" several times in vain an argument broke out behind a partition and presently a lovely Jewess appeared at an interior door and scrutinized me with black hostile eyes."
unproductive of success
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recede. "Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us."
pull back or move away or backward
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musty. "There was an inexplicable amount of dust everywhere and the rooms were musty as though they hadn't been aired for many days."
covered with or smelling of mold
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stratum. "he let her believe that he was a person from much the same stratum as herself--that he was fully able to take care of her."
a group of people sharing similar wealth and status