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The Gone World (1)

Genre

Science Fiction, Fiction, Time Travel, Horror, Mystery, Thriller, Crime, Audiobook, Mystery Thriller, Fantasy

Synopsis

Shannon Moss is part of a clandestine division within the Naval Criminal Investigative Service. In western Pennsylvania, 1997, she is assigned to solve the murder of a Navy SEAL's family--and to locate his vanished teenage daughter. Though she can't share the information with conventional law enforcement, Moss discovers that the missing SEAL was an astronaut aboard the spaceship U.S.S. Libra—a ship assumed lost to the currents of Deep Time. Moss knows first-hand the mental trauma of time-travel and believes the SEAL's experience with the future has triggered this violence.

definitions.

unimpassioned

adjective

  1. Not impassioned; lacking passion; without emotion.

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curlicues

noun

  1. A fancy twisting or curling shape usually made from a series of concentric circles.

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bathos

/ˈbeɪθɒs/

noun

  1. Overdone or treacly attempts to inspire pathos.
  2. Depth.
  3. (the arts) Risible failure on the part of a work of art to properly affect its audience, particularly owing to
  4. (the arts) The ironic use of such failure for satiric or humorous effect.
  5. A nadir, a low point particularly in one's career.

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anticlimax
banality
triteness
chewing the scenery,
hamminess
cheesiness
sappiness
treacliness
tweeness
callowness
immaturity

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skeins

noun

  1. A quantity of yarn, thread, or the like, put up together, after it is taken from the reel. A skein of cotton yarn is formed by eighty turns of the thread around a fifty-four inch reel.
  2. A web, a weave, a tangle.
  3. The membrane of a fish ovary.
  4. (wagonmaking) A metallic strengthening band or thimble on the wooden arm of an axle.
  5. (provincial England) A group of wild fowl, (e.g. geese, goslings) when they are in flight.
  6. A winning streak.

verb

  1. To wind or weave into a skein.

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tonsure

/ˈtɒn.ʃə(ɹ)/

noun

  1. A ritual shaving of this kind.
  2. The bald patch resulting from being tonsured.

verb

  1. To shave the crown of the head as a sign of humility and religious vocation.

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fermata

/fɜːˈmɑːtə/

noun

  1. The holding of a note or rest for longer than its usual duration; also the notation of such a prolongation, usually represented as a dot with a semi-circle above or below it, written above or below the prolonged note or rest.

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bird's-eye
hold

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requisitioned

verb

  1. To demand something, especially for a military need of staff, supplies or transport.

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squall

/ˈskwɔːl/

noun

  1. A squall line, multicell line, or part of a squall line.
  2. A sudden storm, as found in a squall line.
  3. A loud cry or wail.

verb

  1. To cry or wail loudly.

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clarion

/ˈklæɹiən/

noun

  1. A medieval brass instrument, related to the trumpet, or its sound.
  2. A different type of musical instrument resembling an organ.

verb

  1. To sound a clarion (trumpet-like instrument).
  2. To make a similar sound to the instrument.

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claro

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pealing

/ˈpiːlɪŋ/

verb

  1. To sound with a peal or peals.
  2. To utter or sound loudly.
  3. To assail with noise.
  4. To resound; to echo.
  5. To pour out.
  6. To appeal.

noun

  1. The sound made by bells as they peal.

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cavalcade

/ˈkævəlˌkeɪd/

noun

  1. (collective) A company of riders.
  2. A parade.
  3. A trail ride, usually more than one day long.
  4. (by extension) A series, a chain (e.g. of events).

verb

  1. To move as part of a series or group, such as marchers in a parade or snow in an avalanche, especially in large numbers or in a chaotic or dangerous fashion

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chain
series
company
parade
procession

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