Vocab - Hiroshima (ALL SENTENCES) (FIXED VERSION)

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

prominence

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

estuarial

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

philanthropies

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

incendiary

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

debris

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the staff gradually swept up the _____.

debris

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

debris

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

debris

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

debris

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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

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at fifty he was healthy, _____, and calm.

convivial

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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

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

miasma

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

intricately

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

anguished

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

apathetic

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in a _____ of terrified strength, he freed himself.

paroxysm

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

prostrate

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the nakamuras were all sick and _____.

prostrate

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

tableau

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

abrasions

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

credence

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

havoc

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

immolate

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

succor

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

malaise

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

malaise

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

crux

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

remnant

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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

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

succumbed

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

facade

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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

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

vitality

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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

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

decrepit

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

pyres

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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

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

philanthropies

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

debris

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

intricate

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

convivial

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

prominence

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

estuarial

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

incendiary

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

incessant

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

solicitous

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

miasma

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