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covenant
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noun
an agreement.
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Scar
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An-mei Hsu
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wispy
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thin and weak
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chastise
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to criticize severely.
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insolent
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boldly rude or disrespectful
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Hsu Names
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An-mei and Rose
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betrothed
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engaged to be married:
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posterity
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all future generations; all descendants of one person
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Taiyuan
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where Lindo Jong grew up
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sheepish
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adjective
(of a person or expression) showing embarrassment from shame or a lack of self-confidence
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discordant
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adjective
(of sounds) harsh and jarring because of a lack of harmony
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dawdle
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to waste time; idle; trifle; loiter:
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impurities
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noun ( pl. -ties)
the quality or condition of being impure.
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Ying-ying
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Mother, St. Clair familyIn The Moon Lady is told that girls should never express their desires, only listen to those of others. Is lost on a family outing in the festival of the moon lady. When told to make a wish, she wished to be found.In Ther Voice from the Wall builds a invisible wall between her and her daughter. Becomes pregnant and has a miscarriage, though she knew this even before the child was concieved.In Waiting Between the Trees reveals that she fell for a man at a very young age and he impregnated her with a son. Soon after he began to see other women, and in her grief and pain over this she aborted her baby. Afterwards she went to work as a shop lady where she met her future husband, Clifford. Claimed that she was a Tiger lady and was golden until that first man broke her heart, when she turned black.In Rice Husband put fear into her daughter's heart over the appearence of her future husband and later went to stay with her daughter and saw that her marriage was falling apart.
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felicitous
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having a special ability for suitable manner or expression, as a person.
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Waverly
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Jong daughterIn The Rules of the Game becomes a prodigy at chess and resents her mother's boasting as she feels her mother is trying to claim some of her glory.In Four Directions she feels her new fiance could never be good enough for her mother and in desperation to get Lindo to accept Rich falls to tears only to find that her mother already knew of Waverly's engagement and is okay with it.In Double Face shows her mother that the crook in thier nose is something positive, not negative at all.
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bolt
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to make a sudden, swift dash, run, flight, or escape; spring away suddenly:
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Hsu Stories
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Scar, Half and Half, Without Wood and Magpies
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wantonness
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lewdness; sensualness
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Waverly's daughter
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Shoshana
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Tientsin
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An-mei's mom's home
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pretense
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pretending or feigning; make-believe
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Jong Names
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Waverly and Lindo
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auspicious
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promising success; propitious; opportune; favorable:
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essence
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noun
the intrinsic nature or indispensable quality of something, esp. something abstract, that determines its character
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The Moon Lady
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Ying-ying St. Clair
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remnants
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noun
a small remaining quantity of something.
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impertinent
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intrusive or presumptuous, as persons or their actions; insolently rude; uncivil:
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Second Wife
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Horrid woman who pushed An-Mei's mother to her death
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celestial
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pertaining to the sky or visible heaven.
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beckoning
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verb [ intrans. ]
make a gesture with the hand, arm, or head to encourage someone to come nearer or follow
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Rose
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daughter in Hsu familyIn Half and Half is told to watch Bing the day he dies. Feels her mother's faith went with him.In Without Wood stands up to husband as he tries to take the house in the divorce. He made all the descisions in the relationship until one fateful incident when he lost faith in his descisions and wanted Rose to start making them. When she refused he asked for a divorce, thinking she'd bend. But she stands up against him and demands the house.
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dowry
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money and goods that a woman brings to her husband in marriage
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