An experiment in love

1. An experiment in love

Sosnina Sasha

2. Duffle coat

is a coat made from duffel, a coarse, thick, woolen material.
Even the duffle coat passed on by my cousin did not go much
below the knee. (p.153)

3. Hideous

extremely unpleasant.
We heard Claire`s voice, rising, swooping above and below the

4. Authenticity

the quality of being real or true.
Authenticity. We really ought to be down at floor level gasping in the
air. (p.155)

5. Consumption

the action of using up a resource.
Consumption, I think.(p. 156)

6. Dressing-gown

a long, loose robe, typically worn after getting out of bed or
bathing.
I did not possess a dressing-gown. (p.157)

7. Ingratitude

lack of proper appreciation or thanks for something
The reply was very long and very bitter, denouncing my ingratitude,
my improvidence, the laxity of my morals.(p.159)

8. Verbiage

a profusion of words usually of little or obscure content
The burden of the letter was this, when the verbiage was stripped
away.(p.160)

9. In haste

too quickly, without careful planning or thought
It didn't occur to me that the letter might have been written in haste.
(p.161)

10. Laburnum tree

any of several small trees belonging to the genus Laburnum,
of the legume family, having elongated clusters of
pendulous yellow flowers.
We had come from our suburbs, villages and market towns, from
stockbroker Tudor and inter-war semi with laburnum tree. (p. 162)

11. Rebellion

an act of armed resistance to an established
government or leader.
It was a small rebellion against the lives they had led since puberty.
(p.164)

12.

1. Duffle coat
2. Rebellion
3. Laburnum tree
4. In haste
5. Verbiage
6. Ingratitude
7. Dressing-gown
8. Authenticity
9. Hideous
10. Consumption
A. Any of several small trees belonging to
the genus Laburnum, of the legume
family, having elongated clusters of
pendulous yellow flowers.
B. Too quickly, without careful planning
or thought.
C. An act of armed resistance to an
established government or leader.
D. A coat made from duffel, a coarse,
thick, woolen material.
E. The action of using up a resource.
F. Lack of proper appreciation or thanks
for something.
G. Extremely unpleasant.
H. A profusion of words usually of little or
obscure content.
I. A long, loose robe, typically worn after
getting out of bed or bathing.
J. The quality of being real or true.

13. Thanks for attention!