A Separate Peace
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tacit
67
exaltation
2
manse
70
goaded egotism
3
specters
79
sapient characteristic, impinge
7
inveigle
81
judiciously
8
rhetorically (96)
82
contretemps
16
chronic
90
Kraut
25
inured
92
the dexterity of a virtuoso
26
anarchy
94
gross encumbrance
27
insidious
95
clodhoppers
41
mordantly
100
Madame Chiang Kai-shek
45
solace, enmity
102
opulent sobriety
The buildings were reticent.
47
effulgence
105
uplifting aphorism
48
latent
109
sustenance
49
cliché
110
self deprecation
professional gulls
54
grandee, recessional
113
gibe, sententiousness
58
decalogue
General MacArthur
115
vagaries
59
reverie
116
Bolsheviks
62
exhort (110)
121
slalom races
multifariously civilian