Vocab - Hiroshima (ALL SENTENCES) (FIXED VERSION)

he wore his black hair parted in the middle rather long; the _____ of the frontal bones…

prominence

formed by the seven _____ rivers that branched out the ota river.

estuarial

mr. tanaka, a retired officer of the toyo kisen kaisha steamship line, an anti-christian, a man famous in Hiroshima for his showy _____.

philanthropies

any fires started by an _____ raid; and the neighbor was reluctantly sacrificing his home to the city’s safety.

incendiary

The _____ did not cover her deeply. she rose up and freed herself.

debris

the staff gradually swept up the _____.

debris

she cooked with utensils and ate off plates she scavenged from the _____.

debris

myeko, the youngest of her three children, buried breast-deep and unable to move, crawled across the _____.

debris

her first sensation was of dreadful pain in her left leg. it was so black under the books and _____.

debris

when a family member gets sick you are supposed to cook for him, bathe, massage, and read to him, and to offer _____ familial sympathy.

incessant

at fifty he was healthy, _____, and calm.

convivial

he took the women to a temporary hospital in case of an emergency. by this _____ behavior, mr. tanimoto at once got rid of his terror.

solicitous

but as much of hiroshima he could see was giving off a thick, dreadful _____.

miasma

a mosquito net was wound _____, as if it had been carefully wrapped, around his feet.

intricately

later she heard someone walking on top of the wreckage above her, and _____ voices spoke up, evidently from within the mess around her.

anguished

father kliensorge, already growing _____ and dazed in the presence of the cumulative distress.

apathetic

in a _____ of terrified strength, he freed himself.

paroxysm

at first, when they got among the rows of _____ houses.

prostrate

the nakamuras were all sick and _____.

prostrate

but in and around was an awful ______--five dead men, nearly naked, all badly burned

tableau

he had examined himself and found; left clavicle fractured; multiple _____ and lacerations of face and body.

abrasions

no one understood the idea or put any more _____ in it.

credence

the sight of the shipshape launch against the background of the _____ across the river.

havoc

the priests concluded that mr. fukai had run back to _____ himself in the flames.

immolate

the first word of possible _____ anyone had heard in nearly twelve awful hours

succor

many people who did not die right away came down with nausea, headache, diarrhea, _____, and fever,

malaise

tanimoto fell suddenly ill with a general _____, weariness, and feverishness, and he,

malaise

the ____ of the matter is whether total war in its present form is justifiable, even when it serves a just purpose.

crux

they raised their upper bodies slowly and accepted a cup of water with a bow and drunk quietly and, spilling any _____

remnant

Not only standing among the charred _____ of the same plant but pushing up in new places, among bricks and through cracks in the asphalt.

remnants

the apparently uninjured people who had died so mysteriously in the first few hours or days had _____ in this first stage.

succumbed

red cross hospital was back to par on basic medical equipment, its directors put up a new yellow brick veneer _____.

facade

one story told how a painter on a ladder was monumentalized in a kind of bas-relief on the stone _____ of a bank building

facade

mr. tanimoto’s church had been ruined and he no longer had his exceptional _____.

vitality

the doctors realized in _____ that even though most of these dead had also suffered from burns and blast effects, they had absorbed enough radiation to kill them.

retrospect

novitiate, streaked with brown; the houses on the outskirts of the city, standing but _____, with broken windows and dishevelled tiles…

decrepit

the corpse detail carried the bodies to a clearing outside, placed them on _____ of wood from ruined houses,

pyres

father kleinsorge bound more bandage around father schiffer’s head, moved him to a steep place, and settled him so that his head was high, and soon the bleeding _____.

diminished

bill and melinda gates spend a lot of their time managing their various _____, many of which focus on improving public education.

philanthropies

the _____ from hurricane sandy still littered the jersey shore when it was hit by another terrible storm.

debris

the _____ beading on the designer wedding dress was the reason the dress was $5,000.

intricate

sue’s _____ spirit was contagious; soon everyone at the table was laughing and enjoying themselves.

convivial

the mountain’s _____________ dominated the landscape; it overshadowed everything else.

prominence

please don’t pollute the _____ rivers; the trash will end up in the sea.

estuarial

the citizens of hiroshima expected an _____ raid but not an atomic bomb.

incendiary

the _____ drone of the air conditioner outside kept me awake when all I wanted to do was nap!

incessant

survivors were grateful for the _____ Red Cross workers who came to offer aid.

solicitous

the atmosphere may never recover from the _____ that resulted from the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

miasma