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"The Yellow Wallpaper" vocab in context 1

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“It is very seldom that mere ordinary people like John and myself secure ____________ halls for the summer.”ancestral
“He has no patience with faith, an intense horror of superstition, and he __________ openly at any talk of things not to be felt and seen and put down in figures.”scoffs
“I always fancy I see people walking in these numerous paths and __________, but John has cautioned me not to give way to fancy in the least.”arbors
I can see a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to ______________ about behind that silly and conspicuous front design.skulk
“There is a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two _________ eyes stare at you upside down.”bulbous
“I even said so to John one moonlight evening but he said what I felt was a(n) _________, and shut the window."draught
“I don't like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the ________ and had roses allover the window and such pretty old-fashioned chintz hangings!piazza
“I don't like our room a bit. I wanted one downstairs that opened on the piazza and had roses all over the window and such pretty old-fashioned __________ hangings!chintz
“A colonial mansion, a hereditary estate, I would say a haunted house, and reach the height of romantic ___________ -- but that would be asking too much of fate!”felicity
“ Personally, I believe that _____________ work, with excitement and change, would do me good.”congenial
“I never saw a worse paper in my life. One of those sprawling ____________ patterns committing every artistic sin.”flamboyant
“I am sitting by the window now, up in this ____________ nursery, and there is nothing tohinder my writing as much as I please, save lack of strength.”atrocious
“The furniture in this room is no worse than ______________, however, for we had to bring it all from downstairs.”inharmonious
“There is one end of the room where it is almost intact, and there, when the crosslights fade and the low sun shines directly upon it, I can almost fancy radiation after all, -- the _____________ grotesques seem to form around a common centre and rush off in headlong plunges of equal distraction.”interminable
“There is one end of the room where it is almost intact, and there, when the crosslights fade and the low sun shines directly upon it, I can almost fancy radiation after all, -- the interminable _____________ seem to form around a common centre and rush off in headlong plunges of equal distraction.”grotesques

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