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very still, as if nailed to the spot

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Transfixed

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Peculiarity/something that makes someone different

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Idiosyncrasy

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definite/clearly stated

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Explicit

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differences

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Variations

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understandable

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Intelligible

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a simplified and standardized conception or image, invested with special meaning, and held in common, by members of a group; overly simplistic prejudicial view of a group of people.

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Stereotype

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wild uproar or unrestrained disorder; tumult; chaos

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Pandemonium

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boldly resisting authority

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Defiant

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random or deliberate VIOLENCE or DAMAGE; a state of rowdy disorder

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Mayhem

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a danger or threat

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Menace

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timidly; fearfully

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Timorously

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closing in on something

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Converging

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frightened with threats

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Intimidated

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a SCENE or state of wild uproar

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Bedlam

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able to be explained

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Explicable

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to be in agreement

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Assent

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assuming or presuming something: doing something without right or permission. (It was presumptuous to think I could use my mom’s credit card without asking first.)

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Presumptuous

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NOT able to be explained

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Inexplicable