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Prodigious

Prodigious. Lavishly fruitful Extravagantly productive Amazing; awesome Bountiful That which is prodigious fills us with astonishment. Prodigious. Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift) “… prodigious speed …” “… prodigious strength …”. Prodigious. Paradise Lost (John Milton)

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Prodigious

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  1. Prodigious Lavishly fruitful Extravagantly productive Amazing; awesome Bountiful That which is prodigious fills us with astonishment.

  2. Prodigious Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift) “…prodigious speed…” “…prodigious strength…”

  3. Prodigious Paradise Lost (John Milton) “…a bridge of length prodigious…”

  4. Prodigious Pride and Prejudice (Jane Austen) “I like them prodigiously.”

  5. Prodigious The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (Mark Twain) • “Each lad had an income now that was simply prodigious– a dollar for every weekday.”

  6. Prodigious Moby Dick (Herman Melville) • “…prodigious magnitude…” • “…prodigious hurry…” • “…a prodigious, blood-dripping mass…”

  7. Prodigious The Red Badge of Courage (Stephen Crane) • “…the prodigious uproar of battle…”

  8. Prodigious The Crucible (Arthur Miller) • “There is prodigious fear in this court.”

  9. Prodigious Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) • “Major Major grew despondent as he watched a simple communications swell prodigiously into huge manuscripts.”

  10. Prodigious A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) • “The brimstone too which burns there in such prodigious quantity fills all hell with its intolerable stench.”

  11. Profound Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad) • “…profound stillness…” “…profoundly pensive • “…profound darkness…” attitude…” • “…profound meaning…” • “…profound tone…” • “…profound glance…” • “…profound anguish…” • “…profound serenity…”

  12. Profound Paradise Lost (John Milton) “…darkness profound…” “…the void profound…”

  13. Profound Moby Dick (Herman Melville) “…the profound unbounded sea…” “The profound calm which only apparently precedes and prophesies of a storm is perhaps more awful than the storm itself.”

  14. Profound “A Vindication of the Rights of Women” (Mary Wollenscraft) • “…profound thinker…” • “…profound reflection…” • “…profound secret…” • “…profound ignorance…”

  15. Sublime Paradise Lost (John Milton) “…a celestial colloquy sublime…”

  16. Sublime Frankenstein (Mary Shelley) • “…the sublime shape of the mountains…” • “I cannot believe that I am the same monster whose thoughts were once filled with sublime visions of transcendent beauty.”

  17. Sublime Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) • “Aarfy’s joy was sublime.”

  18. Sublime Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) • “Death—that mysterious and sublime change, passed over his face.”

  19. Sublime “The Vindication of the Rights of Women” (Mary Wollenscraft) • “…the sublime gloom of tender melancholy…”

  20. Sublime Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift) “…His Most Sublime Majesty…”

  21. Sublime Peter Pan (James Barrie) • “…our sublime gloom of tender melancholy…”

  22. Clamor: To create noise because of eagerness Hamlet: “…an instant burst of clamor…”

  23. Clamor: To create noise because of eagerness Paradise Lost: “The savage clamor drowned both harp and voice.”

  24. Clamor: To create noise because of eagerness Pride and Prejudice: “…the clamorous happiness of Lydia herself in bidding farewell…”

  25. Clamor: To create noise because of eagerness Moby Dick: “The sailors clamored for pardon on the deck of the dock.”

  26. Clamor: To create noise because of eagerness “One Writer’s Beginnings” (Eurdora Welty): “From the first, I was clamorous to learn.”

  27. Clamor: To create noise because of eagerness Native Son (Richard Wright): “His feelings clamored for an answer his mind could not give.”

  28. Clamor: To create noise because of eagerness Animal Farm : “The animals clamored to be allowed to go out.”

  29. Clamor: To create noise because of eagerness Lord Jim: “…human beings clamorous with the distress of cries for help.”

  30. Clamor: To create noise because of eagerness The Scarlet Letter: “…the clamor of fiends and night hags…”

  31. Clamor: To create noise because of eagerness Ivanhoe (Sir Walter Scott): “…the clamorous yells and barkings of all the dogs in the hall…”

  32. Condescend: To lower oneself socially; to speak “down” to “Vindication of the Rights of Women” (Marry Wollenscraft) • “Men should speak to women in the language of truth and soberness, and away with the lullaby strains of condescending endearments.”

  33. Condescend: To lower oneself socially; to speak “down” to Moby Dick: • “…a sort of condescending concern and compassion…”

  34. Condescend: To lower oneself socially; to speak “down” to Peter Pan (J.M. Barrie) • “He would answer condescendingly.”

  35. Condescend: To lower oneself socially; to speak “down” to The Advantures of Tom Sawyer: • “These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person.”

  36. Condescend: To lower oneself socially; to speak “down” to Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte) • “She was forced to condescend to our company.”

  37. Condescend: To lower oneself socially; to speak “down” to Treasure Island (Robert Louis Stevenson) • “’Come in, Mr. Dance,’ says he, very stately and condescending.”

  38. Condescend: To lower oneself socially; to speak “down” to Catch-22 (Joseph Heller) • “…a tone of respectful condescension…”

  39. Condescend: To lower oneself socially; to speak “down” to The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald) • “Tom Buchanan smiled with jovial condescension.”

  40. Condescend: To lower oneself socially; to speak “down” to To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) • “Jem condescended to take me to school on the first day.”

  41. Languor: A state of lazy slowness; torpor; lassitude; inertia Moby Dick • “Everything resolves you into languor.”

  42. Languor: A state of lazy slowness; torpor; lassitude; inertia Uncle Tom’s Cabin • “She opened her eyes in a state of dreamy, delicious languor.”

  43. Languor: A state of lazy slowness; lassitude; torpor; inertia The Return of the Native (Joseph Conrad) • “Eustasia Vye drooped again into languor.”

  44. Languor: A state of lazy slowness; torpor; lassitude; inertia Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde (Robert Louis Stevenson) • “…a man languidly weak in both body and mind…”

  45. Languor: A state of lazy slowness; torpor; lassitude; inertia The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde) “…dreamy, languorous eyes”

  46. Languor: A state of lazy slowness; torpor; lassitude; inertia The Invisible Man (Ralph Ellison) • “…record shop blaring languid blues…”

  47. Languor: A state of lazy slowness; torpor; lassitude; inertia Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (James Joyce) • “…the languor of sleep…” • “…a languid weariness…” • “…languid grace…” • “…the languor of afternoon music…”

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