1.desire: the feeling that accompanies an unsatisfied state
Novel Sentence: A Streetcar Named Desire
Stand-alone: If you desire something earnestly, you wishes will come true.
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2.infatuated: marked by foolish or unreasoning fondnessv
Novel Sentence: In this part of New Orleans you are practically always just around the corner, or a few doors down the street, from a tinny piano being played with the infatuated fluency of brown fingers.
Stand-alone: He completely infatuated with a camera.
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3.reproach: express criticism towards
Novel Sentence: Well, Stella—you’re going to reproach me, I know that you’re bound to reproach me—but before you do—take into consideration—you left!
Stand-alone: His mom repoached him for hit friend without even listening his reason
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4.burden: an onerous or difficult concern
Novel Sentence: I’m not meaning this in any reproachful way, but all the burden descended on my shoulders.
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5.perpetrate: perform an act, usually with a negative connotation
Novel Sentence: I don’t understand what happened to Belle Reve but you don’t know how ridiculous you are being when you suggest that my sister or I or anyone of our family could have perpetrated a swindle on anyone else.
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6.smoldering: showing scarcely suppressed anger
Novel Sentence: He crosses through drapes with a smoldering look.
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7.flinch: draw back, as with fear or pain
Novel Sentence: She returns his look without flinching.
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8.inanimate: not endowed with life
Novel Sentence: You must have had lots of banging around in the army and now that you’re out, you make up for it by treating inanimate objects with such a fury!
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9.affectation: a deliberate pretense or exaggerated display
Novel Sentence: Blanche speaks with an affectation of demureness.
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10.beau: a man with whom one has a romantic relationship
Novel Sentence: Is it because I’ve been stood up by my beau?
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11.destitute: poor enough to need help from others
Novel Sentence: How strange that I should be called a destitute woman!
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12.slander: an abusive attack on a person's character or good name
Novel Sentence: And to repeat slander to me, vicious stories that he had gotten from you!
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13.perplexity: trouble or confusion resulting from complexity
Novel Sentence: Blanche stands quite still for some moments—the silverbacked mirror in her hand and a look of sorrowful perplexity as though all human experience shows on her face.
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14.bellow: shout loudly and without restraint
Novel Sentence: There he throws back his head like a baying hound and bellows his wife's name: "Stella! Stella, sweetheart! Stella!”
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15.effeminate: having unsuitable feminine qualities
Novel Sentence: There was something different about the boy, a nervousness, a softness and tenderness which wasn’t like a man’s, although he wasn’t the least bit effeminate looking—still —that thing was there.
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