The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust #2)

by Philip Pullman

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scotoma.

fulsomely.

corniche.

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précis

soporific

She’d hardly been aware of feeling anxious, but that was because anxiety was everywhere, built into the very molecules of the world, or so it had seemed.

It brought with it a mood that she hadn’t felt for so long that it was unfamiliar, and she welcomed it almost apprehensively: it was a quiet conviction, underlying every circumstance, that all was well and that the world was her true home, as if there were great secret powers that would see her safe.

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modus vivendi

purlieus

rapacity,

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