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| Like the Matching of Spouses and the Naming and Placement of newchildren, the assignments were __________ thought through by the Committee of Elders. |
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| The Instructors of Threes were in charge of the ______ of correct language. |
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| It was an ______ part of the learning of precise speech. |
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| At first it's ______: the speed, clear air, but then the snow accumulates, builds up on the runners, and you slow, you have to push hard to keep going, and- |
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| But once a year, they all smiled ______ at the commotion from the little ones waiting to receive their names and families. |
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| "Jonas," she said, looking down at him, "I apologize to you in particular. I have caused you ______." |
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| Jonas always chuckled when he heard a parent, ______, call sharply to a whining toddler, "That's enough, Twenty-three." |
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| The front-buttoned jacket was the first sign of ______, the first very visible symbol of growing up. |
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| The _____ from rudeness startled him. |
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" My swimming instructor said i don't have the right boyishness or something."
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| But the most _______ difference was the books. |
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| The community, relieved from its discomfort very slightly by her _____ statement, seemed to breathe more easily. |
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| He had been given an unusual and special ______ from the committee, and granted an additional year of nurturing before his Naming and Placement. |
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| THe community was so ______ order, the choices were so carefully made. |
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| "_________," she said. " Jonas has, like all of us, committed minor transgressions." |
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| Fours, Fives, and Sixes all wore jackets that fastened down the down the back so that they would have to help each other dress and would learn ___________. |
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| Birthmother was an important job, if lacking in _____. |
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| Almost instantly the ______ pain in his hand had diminished to the throb which was, now, all he could recall of the experience. |
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| Each family member, including Lily, had been required to sign a pledge that they would not become attached to this little temporary guest, and that they would _______ him without protest or appeal when he was assigned to his own family unit at next year's Ceremony. |
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| This one had a switch, which the man _____ snapped to the end that said OFF. |
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| What we observe as playfulness and patience- the requirements to become Nurturer- could, with maturity, be revealed as simply foolishness and ____. |
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| The audience applause which was enthusiastic at each Naming, rose in an _____ swell when one parental pair, glowing with pride, took a male newchild and heard him named Caleb. |
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| They applauded at the final Assignment, but the applause was piecemeal, no longer a _____ of united enthusiasm. |
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