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in spite of everything; without regard to drawbacks

Fences Example: Thinking he’s gonna do what he want, irrespective of what I say.

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a correctional institution for those convicted of crimes

Example: They told me I killed him and they put me in the penitentiary and locked me up for fifteen years.

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be agitated or irritated

Example: Ain’t no sense you fretting over Gabe.

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in the near future

Example: ROSE exits into the house to answer the telephone. Presently she returns.

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a booking for performers

Example: You know I had a gig and couldn’t get away.

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a tablet that commemorates a person or achievement

Example: A funeral plaque with a light hangs beside the door.

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terminate or abbreviate before its intended or proper end

Example: His posture is that of a military man, and his speech has a clipped sternness.

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one of the mourners carrying the coffin at a funeral

Example: I’m gonna go down and get the pallbearers lined up.

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a gaudy outward display

Example: GABRIEL, with great fanfare, braces himself to blow.

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characteristic of a throwback

Example: He begins to dance. A slow, strange dance, eerie and life-giving. A dance of atavistic signature and ritual.

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conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

Example from Fences: It is Friday night, payday, and the one night of the week the two men engage in a ritual of talk and drink, TROY is usually the most talkative and at times he can be crude and almost vulgar, though he is capable of rising to profound heights of expression.

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conspicuously and tastelessly indecent

Example: It is Friday night, payday, and the one night of the week the two men engage in a ritual of talk and drink, TROY is usually the most talkative and at times he can be crude and almost vulgar, though he is capable of rising to profound heights of expression.

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showing intellectual penetration or emotional depth

Example: It is Friday night, payday, and the one night of the week the two men engage in a ritual of talk and drink, TROY is usually the most talkative and at times he can be crude and almost vulgar, though he is capable of rising to profound heights of expression.

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at risk of experiencing something usually unpleasant

Example: Hell, you liable to see me walking anywhere!

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a following of one thing after another in time

Example: She is ten years younger than TROY, her devotion to him stems from her recognition of the possibilities of her life without him: a succession of abusive men and their babies, a life of partying and running the streets, the Church, or aloneness with its attendant pain and frustration.

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following or accompanying as a consequence

Example: She is ten years younger than TROY, her devotion to him stems from her recognition of the possibilities of her life without him: a succession of abusive men and their babies, a life of partying and running the streets, the Church, or aloneness with its attendant pain and frustration.

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existing as an essential constituent or characteristic

Example: Though she doesn’t drink, her presence is an integral part of the Friday night rituals.

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an edge tool for cutting grass or crops

Example: Death standing there staring at me...carrying that sickle in his hand.

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begin or get started

Example: I reached down and grabbed that sickle and threw it just as far as I could throw it...and me and him commenced to wrestling.

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alert attentiveness

Example: But as long as I keep my strength and see him coming...as long as I keep up my vigilance...he’s gonna have to fight to get me.

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the act of examining something closely, as for mistakes

Example: He has come to borrow money from TROY, and while he knows he will be successful, he is uncertain as to what extent his lifestyle will be held up to scrutiny and ridicule.

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characterized by orderliness

Example: TROY: (Slow, methodical.) Woman...I do the best I can do.

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arrogant or self-important

Example sentence: I had me an old dog used to get uppity like that.

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expect, believe, or suppose

Example sentence: You come in here carrying on, I reckon they ain’t fired you.

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a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel
Example sentence: They got some rogues...is what they got.

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the quality of agreeing; being suitable and appropriate
Example sentence: A relatively recent addition to the house and running its full width, the porch lacks congruence.

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fraught with uncertainty or doubt
Example sentence: One or two chairs of dubious value sit at one end where the kitchen window opens onto the porch.

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a container that is used to put or keep things in
Example sentence: Two oil drums serve as garbage receptacles and sit near the house at right to complete the setting.

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poor enough to need help from others
Example sentence: Near the turn of the century, the destitute of Europe sprang on the city with tenacious claws and an honest and solid dream.

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stubbornly unyielding
Example sentence: Near the turn of the century, the destitute of Europe sprang on the city with tenacious claws and an honest and solid dream.

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the quality of being crafty
Example sentence: It nourished itself and offered each man a partnership limited only by his talent, his guile, and his willingness and capacity for hard work.

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in poor or broken-down condition

Example sentence: The city rejected them and they fled and settled along the riverbanks and under bridges in shallow, ramshackle houses made of sticks and tar-paper.

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disposed to take action in return for a perceived wrong
Example sentence: They cleaned houses and washed clothes, they shined shoes, and in quiet desperation and vengeful pride, they stole, and lived in pursuit of their own dream.

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the quality of being worthy of esteem or respect

Example sentence: That they could breathe free, finally, and stand to meet life with the force of dignity and whatever eloquence the heart could call upon.

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powerful and effective language

Example Sentence: That they could breathe free, finally, and stand to meet life with the force of dignity and whatever eloquence the heart could call upon.

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make steady progress

Example sentence: Life was rich, full, and flourishing.

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characterized by unrest or disorder or insubordination

Example sentence: The Milwaukee Braves won the World Series, and the hot winds of change that would make the sixties a turbulent, racing, dangerous, and provocative decade had not yet begun to blow full.

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serving or tending to excite or stimulate

Example sentence: The Milwaukee Braves won the World Series, and the hot winds of change that would make the sixties a turbulent, racing, dangerous, and provocative decade had not yet begun to blow full.

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refined responsiveness to pleasurable or painful impressions

Example sentence: Together with his blackness, his largeness informs his sensibilities and the choices he has made in his life.

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strive to equal or match, especially by imitating

Example sentence: His commitment to their friendship of thirty-odd years is rooted in his admiration of Troy’s honesty, capacity for hard work, and his strength, which Bono seeks to emulate.