Desiree's Baby

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  1. suffuse
    cause to spread or flush or flood through, over, or across
    Desiree's face became suffused with a glow that was happiness itself.
  2. astonish
    affect with wonder
    "I knew you would be astonished," laughed Desiree, "at the way he has grown.
  3. unwonted
    out of the ordinary
    < 5 >
    A quick conception of all that this accusation meant for her nerved her with unwonted courage to deny it.
  4. indulgent
    given to yielding to the wishes of someone
    Young Aubigny's rule was a strict one, too, and under it his negroes had forgotten how to be gay, as they had been during the old master's easy-going and indulgent lifetime.
  5. beneficent
    doing or producing good
    In time Madame Valmonde abandoned every speculation but the one that Desiree had been sent to her by a beneficent Providence to be the child of her affection, seeing that she was without child of the flesh.
  6. imperious
    having or showing arrogant superiority
    Marriage, and later the birth of his son had softened Armand Aubigny's imperious and exacting nature greatly.
  7. menace
    something that is a source of danger
    When the baby was about three months old, Desiree awoke one day to the conviction that there was something in the air menacing her peace.
  8. utter
    without qualification
    It was a cry that she could not help; which she was not conscious of having uttered.
  9. subtle
    difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
    It was at first too subtle to grasp.
  10. conception
    the creation of something in the mind
    < 5 >
    A quick conception of all that this accusation meant for her nerved her with unwonted courage to deny it.
  11. conviction
    an unshakable belief in something without need for proof
    When the baby was about three months old, Desiree awoke one day to the conviction that there was something in the air menacing her peace.
Created on Tue Sep 18 12:20:47 EDT 2012

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