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Exaggerated fearlessness or boldness
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James made several brazen attempts to cross the busy street on his tricycle, but he chickened out every time.
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To move in a quick, skillful manner
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The crowd roared with applause when Alisha finished her deftly executed routine.
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Deft
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An abnormal attention or attachment
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Jeremy had an abnormal, childish fetish for sucking his thumb, even though he was fourteen years old.
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A sudden wish or urge
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Even though he had the impulse to run and hide, Laron courageously stood strong and faced the bully.
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Impulsive, Impulsively
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To sink or slip gradually
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While waiting to go on stage, Alvin experienced a momentary lapse into stage fright, but he pulled himself out of it and went on with the show.
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lasped, lasping |
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A sense of knowing; an insight
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Meagan trusted her intuition about her date and left the restaurant without saying goodbye because she had a feeling something was odd.
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Intuitively, intuit |
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A daydream
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Like most of her daydreams about Carl, in this reverie, she found herself at the carnival taking selfies and holding
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An act of deep thinking or reflection
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Before Kalvin made the decision to break up with Sherise, he meditated on it deeply for several days.
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meditate, meditating, meditates, meditated
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Boring, tiresome because of length, slowness or dullness
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Every minute she waited for her mother to pick her up after school became more tedious because she had nothing to do.
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tediously
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turned away from what is right or good
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Gizelle thought it was a perverted twist of fate that she wound up in an interview with Cara Smithers, the woman she bullied relentlessly in eighth grade.
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perverted pervert |
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