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  1. maggoty
    spoiled and covered with eggs and larvae of flies
    The green was maggoty with foreshortened life.
  2. hectare
    a unit of surface area equal to 100 ares
    The buildings of the Hounslow Feely Studio covered seven and a half hectares.
  3. cockchafer
    any of various large European beetles destructive to vegetation as both larvae and adult
    The humming of the screws overhead dropped an octave and a half, back through wasp and hornet to bumble bee, to
    cockchafer, to stag-beetle.
  4. vivaciously
    with vivacity
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    of the white stockings, the sunburnt knees vivaciously bending and unbending
    again, again, and the softer rolling of those well-fitted corduroy shorts beneath
    the bottle green jacket.
  5. hullabaloo
    disturbance usually in protest
    You can’t imagine what a hullabaloo they’ve been making
    about it at the College.
  6. incandescence
    light emission by a body as its temperature is raised
    The molten stone poured out in a stream of dazzling
    incandescence across the road, the asbestos rollers came and went; at the tail of
    an insulated watering cart the steam rose in white clouds.
  7. asbestos
    a fibrous substance that does not burn
    The molten stone poured out in a stream of dazzling
    incandescence across the road, the asbestos rollers came and went; at the tail of
    an insulated watering cart the steam rose in white clouds.
  8. asceticism
    rigorous self-denial and active self-restraint
    Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the
    voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence
    of asceticism.
  9. derision
    the act of treating with contempt
    Was that a
    kind of bestial derision that he detected in those blank grey eyes?
  10. contemptuous
    expressing extreme scorn
    Dared he face the
    risk of being humiliated by a contemptuous refusal?
Created on Thu Sep 08 21:32:43 EDT 2011

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