"Two Kinds" by Amy Tan

Jim D.
Twenty-five words from the short story about a Chinese-American girl and the conflict with her mother.
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  1. abundance
    the property of a more than adequate quantity or supply
  2. assure
    inform positively and with certainty and confidence
  3. conspire
    act in agreement and in secret towards a deceitful purpose
  4. crinkly
    uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves
  5. dawdle
    hang or fall in movement, progress, development, etc.
  6. debut
    the act of beginning something new
  7. devastate
    cause extensive destruction or ruin utterly
  8. discordant
    not in agreement or harmony
  9. fiasco
    a complete failure or collapse
  10. indignant
    angered at something unjust or wrong
  11. intermission
    a time during which something is temporarily stopped or delayed
  12. lament
    a cry of sorrow and grief
  13. lilting
    characterized by a buoyant rhythm
  14. listlessly
    in a listless manner
  15. lop
    cut off from a whole
  16. mesmerize
    attract strongly, as if with a magnet
  17. prodigy
    an unusually gifted or intelligent person
  18. reproach
    express criticism towards
  19. reverie
    an abstracted state of absorption
  20. sauciness
    inappropriate playfulness
  21. sentimental
    marked by tender, romantic, or nostalgic emotion
  22. staccato
    (music) separating the notes
  23. sulky
    sullen or moody
  24. willful
    done by design
  25. sonata
    a musical composition of movements of contrasting forms
Created on Thu Sep 13 10:36:34 EDT 2012

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