A Touch of DARK vocabulary

Question 1

C1 The walkway was lined with shade trees and box gardens teeming🤔 with purple aster and pink and white sweet alyssum.

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C1 These were elite gambling dens🤔.

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Question 3

C1 Hades rarely accepted a wager 🤔other than the human soul.

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C1 “He has taken on the role of puppet master,” Deme- ter had chided🤔.

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Question 5

What possessed people to bargain their soul?

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Question 6

C1 Alexa asked Persephone if she wanted to pair up 🤔for their lab.

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C1 Persephone had been drawn to Lexa’s edginess🤔 –she had tattoos, hair as black as night, and a love of the Goddess of Witchcraft, Hecate.

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C1 Ever since she’d told Lexa about landing 🤔her internship two weeks sago, she’d been hounding 🤔her to go out for drinks. Persephone had managed to postpone the outing🤔

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Question 9

C1 tucked 🤔her tray under her arm.

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Question 10

C1 The narcissus are a symbol of spring and rebirth,” her fingers hovered🤔 over the wilted petals. If anything, the flower should be her symbol. “Why else would he claim it as his?”

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Question 11

T1 her blue-black hair bobbed 🤔with her.

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Question 12

It was also exceedingly common for mortals to find themselves in the Underworld after drinking too much of the nectar.

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Question 13

T1 Aphrodite’s couture 🤔gowns were so coveted, a girl

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Question 14

T1 Plus, I start my internship 🤔tomorrow.”

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Question 15

T1 She was determined to make a good impression,

and showing up hungover or sleep-deprived on her

first day wasn’t the way to go 🤔about it.

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Question 16

T1 mostly out of fear her mother would materialize and smite 🤔them.

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Question 17

T1 I’ll even do 🤔your hair and makeup.

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Question 18

T1 She pursed 🤔her lips, considering.

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Question 19

T1 that’s what Persephone really craved🤔.

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Question 20

T1 Lexa puts up🤔 her hands.

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Question 21

T1 “Your words not mine,” she paused and then hedged🤔. “Wanna talk about it?”

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Question 22

T1 The goddess’s hand shot out🤔, holding the girl’s wrist tight.

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Question 23

T1 a nymph’s features rang true🤔…Persephone had no- ticed earlier when the girl had delivered her drink, but hadn’t felt the need to call her out🤔. But after the conversation with Lexa, Persephone wasn’t taking 🤔any chances.

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Question 24

C2 from school up 🤔 the line,

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Question 25

C2 She'd borrowed the pink sparkly number from Lexa who was far less shapely.

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Question 26

C2 One glance at the crea- ture's beady eyes, and she almost called it quits there.

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Question 27

C2 "A broken phone, blackballed from Nevernight, and a write up in a gossip magazine."

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Question 28

C2 something akin to bitter oranges.

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Question 29

C2 the ceiling was lined with crystal and wrought- iron chandeliers.

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C3 turn her bottle-green eyes mossy🤔.

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Question 31

C3 Persephone lifted her gaze to the mirror and her glamour rippled from her anger.

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Question 32

C3 Demeter had reached forward, touched the flow- ers, and they flared with life.

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Question 33

C3 Demeter frowned. "Dear, you you know do not have to work." "So you say," she muttered under her breath.

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Question 34

C3 If anything, that was a tether that meant obeying her mother was even more important.

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Question 35

C3 She finished getting ready, choosing a pretty, light pink dress with ruffled sleeves that she pair It with a white wedge shoe

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Question 36

C3 She also knew that she needed her mother's magic more than she needed to quench this fire roaring inside her.

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Question 37

C3 stories-stories that infuriated gods and mortals alike. Persephone wasn't aware of any retaliation,

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Question 38

C3 She wore a navy cargo dress with gold zippers.

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Question 39

C3 There was a flurry of activity-phones ringing, paper shuffling, keys tapping as writers and editors pounded out their next article...Persephone's heart thudded in her chest with the thrill of it all.

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Question 40

C3 "Well, I'm a student at New Athens University. I'm majoring in journalism and I'll graduate in May..."

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Question 41

C3 His brows rose and his smile stayed. "Sugar cookie art, huh? That's a thing?"

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Question 42

C3 the number of lawsuits filed against them. There were always com- plaints of defamation, slander, and invasion of privacy.

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Question 43

C3 it took Zeus longer than necessary to come out 🤔against the cults.

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Question 44

C3 Adonis said rather smugly.

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Question 45

C4 thick skin sagged around his neck, and he stared at her with small, squinted eyes. ...His words were a snarl

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Question 46

C4 his girth would probably throw him off balance.

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Question 47

C4 Persephone staggered, and inhaled deeply. Sh

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Question 48

C4 Two large doors bore images of vines and flowers curling around Hades' bident, raised in gold relief.

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C4 At the far end of the room, ele- vated like a throne was a large obsidian slab

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C4 her body grew taunt. Hades stopped in front of her. His eyes scoured her face,

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C4 Persephone wandered into her apartment in a daze.

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C4 because she could not coax a bloom from the ground with magic did, ruminated , air-the thick scent of honeysuckle

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C4 Demeter had agreed, because she'd let Persephone ago-albeit, on a long leash.

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Class went by in a blur of furious notes and dron- ing lectures.

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C4 Adonis parked on the curb in front of Nevernight.

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,c6 a body of water, dark and churning,

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with sleek, dark coats and cropped cars.

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a slate path among tall shoots of grass.

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If she touched the petal, It world shrivel.

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Why os an Ace a Wildcard?

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Yes. Persephone squealed.

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iX The Schock of Jealousy that ricocheted through her

Question 63

C12 She left the Underworld late last night, and having been too keyed🤔 up to sleep, stayed up to work on her article.

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C12 Ha- des' eyes were described as colorless chasms, his face callous, his manner, cold and boorish.

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C12 A third emotion rose inside her-fear-and she tamped it down.

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C12 "I have to see if I can get ahead of this." Persephone reappeared, hobbling on one foot to buckle her sandals.

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C12 wrong-a pale, lithe creature with a hollow face.

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C12 It was what Demeter wanted so she could dole out her punishment, so instead, she inhaled a shaky breath and whispered her apology.

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C13 Lexa pouted. "Why not?"

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C13 "And bashing Hades' godly antics will change the world?"

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C13 She shivered, wishing she had chosen a different outfit. She wore a slippery, shimmery teal dress that reached mid-thigh. It hugged the curve of her breasts and hips, and the deep V-neck left little to the imagination. She had chosen the dress to spite Hades.

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V2 c3 Lexa shrieked like a banshee and reached for a cushion swinging wildly. Persephone dodged the blow, which left Sybil to take the brunt of it.