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from Amy Tan's "Two Kinds"
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| prodigy (n.) | "an unusually talented child, genius, mastermind, virtuoso" |
| indignity (n.) | "an act that injures a person's dignity or self-respect, humiliation, embarrassment, disgrace, affront" |
| reproach (n.) | "something that deserves blame or disgrace, the act or action of dispproving, discredit, blemish, reprimand" |
| ream (n.) | "a quantity of paper that may equal 480, 500, or 516 sheets, a great amount -- usually used in plural" |
| reverie (n.) | "the condition of being lost in thought, daydream, trance, lack of concentration" |
| discordant (adj.) | "not being in agreement, not in harmony, divergent, off-key, dissonant, jarring" |
| lament (v) | "to mourn aloud, to express sorrow for, bemoan, bewail, rue" |
| devastate (v) | "to reduce to ruin, destroy, ravage, overwhelm, traumatize" |
| fiasco (n) | "a complete failure, disaster, catastrophe, debacle" |
| betrayal (n) | "an act of disloyalty or treachery, a violation of trust" |
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