Gender Flashcards

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Old-fashioned

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‘By God, I may be old-fashioned in my ideas, but women run around too much these days to suit me’

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2
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Life shaped

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‘She wanted her life shaped….this decision much be made by some force’

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3
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10 years

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‘She’s been talking about it for 10 years’

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4
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Ghost

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‘Walks through her husband as if he’s a ghost’

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5
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Wife’s man

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‘He was his wife’s man’

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6
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Run around

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‘They oughtn’t let her run around the country’

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7
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Avoided

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‘Instinctively avoided clever, shrewd men’

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8
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Cadet

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‘An erect carriage….like a young man’

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9
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Hard

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‘Demands of her hard, jaunty body’

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10
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Code

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‘Felt safer on a plane where any divergence from a code would be thought impossible’

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11
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Subterfuges

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‘She had begun dealing with subterfuges’

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12
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Smouldering

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‘As if the nerves of her body were constantly smouldering’

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13
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Thickish

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‘Thickish figure of a woman blocked out the light’

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14
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Sensuously

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‘Carries her flesh sensuously’

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15
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Breast

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‘Her left breast was swinging loose’

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16
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Body

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‘Enormous power of that body - he seems to fill those glistening boots until he strained the top lacing’

17
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Took

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‘He too what he could get, ravenously and unscrupulously - eventually he took Daisy’