The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

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The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

• Chapters 9-12

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pervading

• The pervading sound of children playing outside
  the classroom window was very distracting.

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pervading

• present throughout

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oppressive

• Attending school in June can be oppressive
  because of the temperature.

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oppressive

• difficult to bear

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pallid

• Greg looked pallid after being out sick for a
  week.

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pallid

• pale, dull, lifeless

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apprehensively

• Elisa looked at her Friday papers apprehensively
  because she was worried about her grades.

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apprehensively

• anxiously

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cogitating

• The students in 8-3 are cogitating about their
  plans for high school.

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cogitating

• thinking

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inquests

• Tom and his classmates would never be done
  holding inquests on dead cats.

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inquests

• judicial inquiry into the cause of a death

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chaos

• When the fire drill sounded at lunchtime, it
  created chaos in the lunchroom.

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chaos

• disorder confusion