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1. "Adversity is a word which here means '_______,' and there are very few people in this world who have had the sort of troubling adversity that follows these three children wherever they go."
2. "As the children walked across the shack to sit glumly on one of the bales of hay, they were disappointed to learn that the crabs were territorial, a word which here means '_______.'"
3. "Ridiculous rules or not, the orphans did not want to be punished, so the three of them walked gingerly--the word 'gingerly' here means '_______'--across the shack and out onto the brown lawn."
4. "If you went and stood beneath the arch, looking up at the black letters spelling out the name of the school and its austere--a word which here means '_______'--motto, you would here nothing but the SWISH of the breeze through the brown and patchy grass."
5. "But Klaus was spending the morning on autopilot, a word which here means '_______.'"
6. "For the moment, Sunny was something of a fifth wheel, a phrase which means '_______,' but she crawled alongside her siblings, offering moral support."
7. "It was the next afternoon, and all three Baudelaire orphans were doing a great deal of wincing, a word which here means '_______.'"
8. "She was alone on the veranda--the word 'veranda' is a fancy term for _______--and costumed as a dragonfly, with a glittering green mask and enormous silvery wings."
9. "Violet tried to remember each detail Klaus had taught her, Klaus tried to remember every measurement he had taught himself, and Sunny stapled like mad, a phrase which here means '_______.'"
10. "'These orphans you foisted on me,' Nero said, using a nasty word for '_______,' 'have proven to be terrible cheaters, and I'm forced to expel them.'"
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