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03/09/2017

A1
1. Appendix . J2
2. Ecology . J4
3. Beyond a critical point . M2
4. ecosystem . J6 M3
5. Flask . M6
6. Molecule, atom, element . 0
7. Finite . J7
8. geological . M5
9. potential. M4
10. Evade . J5
11. literacy, . 0
12. dynamic stabilizing . M1
13. naive, . J3
14. deplorably .
15. Bravos .
16. striplings. .
17. Qanat .
18. Celsius, Fahrenheit, Kelvin 254–332 , 284 to 302
19. “bonanza” .
20. terraform .
21. dismay.
22. disregarding .
23. thriving if planted in
24. depressions lined with dew precipitators.
25. limnologist .
26. porous .
27. Strata
28. 2 ephemerals (chenopods, pigweeds, and amaranth to begin), then scotch broom, low lupine, vine eucalyptus (the type adapted for Caladan’s northern reaches), dwarf tamarisk, shore pine—then the true desert growths: candelilla, saguaro, and bis-naga, the barrel cactus. Where it would grow, they introduced camel sage, onion grass, gobi feather grass, wild alfalfa, burrow bush, sand verbena, evening primrose, incense bush, smoke tree, creosote bush.
29. 2 They turned then to the necessary animal life—burrowing creatures to open the soil and aerate it: kit fox, kangaroo mouse, desert hare, sand terrapin…
30. 2 and the predators to keep them in check: desert hawk, dwarf owl, eagle and desert owl;
31. 2 and insects to fill the niches these couldn’t reach: scorpion, centipede, trapdoor spider, the biting wasp and the wormfly… and the desert bat to keep watch on these.
32. 2 Now came the crucial test: date palms, cotton, melons, coffee, medicinals—more than 200 selected food plant types to test and adapt.
33. ecologically illiterate
34. Niche

01/27/2017

41 “Control the coinage and the courts—
1. rabble .
2. unbidden .
3. errand.
4. cherub.
5. paradox in the Fremen way of life:
6. how well they lived in these sietch caverns compared to the graben pyons;
7. dreariness .
8. menage.
9. resemblance .
10. subtle differences, too, .
11. and it was in these that most adults found Alia disquieting.
12. exasperated .
13. poignant thing, .
14. a nerve-simpatico that made them emotionally one.
15. malice .
16. receded.

01/16/2017

37 The hands move, the lips move—
1. Phosphor tubes .
2. acoustical horn .
3. another way had been opened in the throng.
4. sensed the jihad in their words, .
5. fanatic legions.
6. in a litter.
7. litter—a crone, .
8. precariously .
9. reverberating .
10. disquiet.
11. aura of power .
12. ordeal.
13. redolence .
14. proffered .
15. akin .
16. psychokinesthetic extension .
17. glucose molecule. An entire chain of molecules confronted her, and she recognized a protein…
18. simpatico, .
19. semblance of calm. The other mote lay quiescent against her.
20. subliminal .
21. impeded .
22. muzziness .
23. quintessence .
24. Pogrom .

01/04/2017

35 The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future.
1. mechanism .
2. triangular arena.
3. nativity and to remind all Harkonnens and subjects .
4. Feyd-Rautha was heir-designate, .
5. meridian-to-meridian .
6. Gaiety .
7. scabrous brown walls reflected in the dark puddles of the streets, .
8. and the furtive .
9. legend of the phoenix,” .
10. incongruously .
11. ecru— .
12. serene repose .
13. houris .
14. galling.
15. promethean, .
16. “You anticipate .
17. emphasis.” .
18. coercion, .
19. guidon pennants .
20. surmount .
21. the tiers above and around .
22. official sanction .
23. gyves .
24. sonorous with its ancient pomp, .
25. and Feyd-Rautha led his troupe across the arena for obeisance .
26. The aficionados .
27. deltoid muscle .
28. inexorably, .
29. moue .
30. Languidly, .
31. bravura.
32. fete.
33. primordial, .
34. “Hypno-ligation .
35. distortion?”
36. aristocracy of misfortune.”

01/02/2017

34 God created Arrakis to train the faithful.
1. train the faithful.
2. robes seared the patches of .
3. preoccupation .
4. conditioned.
5. I can think of the marital needs of royalty without once weighing my own concubinage.
6. simultaneously in a fragmenting way
7. that was disconcerting to the inner eye.
8. axiom came to mind:
9. forced to reevaluate.
10. A violent calamity .
11. to placate the shade of .
12. drachms .
13. hemmed around by jostling bodies, .
14. dark honeycomb lattice .
15. rasped her nerves with its urgency.
16. juggernaut. It was gathering weight and momentum.
17. thirty-eight million decaliters here,” .
18. water precipitated .
19. caught up in a rapture .
20. run down through the qanats .
21. imbue with fervor and fanaticism.
22. wave of time, sometimes in its trough, sometimes on a crest—
23. the wild jihad still loomed ahead of him, .
24. the violence and the slaughter. It was like a promontory above the surf.
25. embers—A gold-bright sun’s lost in first dusk.
26. What frenzied senses, desp’rate musk .
27. Are consort of rememb’ring.” .
28. censered requiem…

12/23/2016

33 My father, the Padishah Emperor, was 72
1. the year he encompassed .
2. seldom .
3. Crest .
4. blatant .
5. sincerity, .
6. dynasty that reached back .
7. Acrid .
8. unconscious assessment .
9. hammock .
10. aquiline .
11. faculty, .
12. placation in his voice, .
13. Coddle .
14. surfeit .
15. blunting of attack .
16. maelstroms
17. en passant.
18. ministrations to his body .
19. loathing. She looked at Stilgar, saw his fatalism, .
20. sanity, the remorse .
21. abyss. .
22. dower .

12/20/2016

32 The Fremen were supreme in that quality the ancients called “spannungsbogen”—
1. Ancients
2. self-imposed delay
3. to negotiate it.
4. detach guards .
5. seeing the tapestry of this planet cut in cross section where the narrow cleft .
6. right angles.
7. Import .
8. she had succumbed to that profound drive shared by all creatures who are faced with death
9. —the drive to seek immortality through progeny.
10. The fertility drive of the species .
11. to reevaluate him.
12. has stature, .
13. feline prudence.
14. capitalized on the Missionaria Protectiva’s imprint.
15. intoned. “He reads to al-Lat, .
16. the sun whom he defied and subjugated.
17. tempest.
18. He sent the pestilence among them That did lay schemes against us.
19. Rogue.
20. cynicism .
21. stratum .
22. perpetual- .
23. indeterminacy intervened: the expenditure.
24. minute action— .

12/16/2016

30 This Fremen religious adaptation, . 9pts
1. This Fremen religious adaptation, .
2. Pillars of the Universe,”
3. mystical fusion .
4. profound beauty is typified .
5. mirage .
6. Voracious .
7. Horizon .
8. Hymn”? .
9. mote .
10. jubba cloak, .
11. hoarse caricature .
12. smell the rank, semisweet esthers .
13. cultivate ecological literacy .
14. Qanat.
15. five thousand cubic meters of water to irrigate one hectare .
16. sirocco— .
17. mock indifference.
18. supine .

11/16/2016

22 O Seas of Caladan, +20%

1. the thought gall
2. saw with sharpened clarity every circumstance
3. the cold precision
4. impotent rage
5. abrasion of ’thopter
6. mercenaries,
7. An accumulation of minutiae
8. saved us from the carnage?”
9. done without malice
10. Take consolation from my assurance
11. another datum to be entered
12. extrapolating,
13. pervaded him.
14. escape into renegade anonymity.
15. go on indefinitely risking exposure
16. abdomen, awareness focused on the embryo
17. Remembered lore insinuated itself
18. “literjons, stilltent, energy caps, recaths, sandsnork, binoculars, stillsuit repkit, baradye pistol, sinkchart, filt-plugs, paracompass, maker hooks, thumpers, Fremkit, fire pillar….” Know 2
19. watch the terrain below.
20. coldness in her entrails
21. prescient awareness, seeing it as a computation of most probable futures,
22. but with something more, an edge of mystery—as though his mind dipped into some timeless stratum
23. gauze kerchief
24. some surface as undulant
25. minuscule
26. (The implacable part
27. hysteria
28. so subtle, so insidious…
29. brooked no dispute.
30. no trickery or artifice
31. a callus
32. obscurity
33. in**ed, patrician lines

11/03/2016

16 Greatness is a transitory experience.
1. strong sense of the sardonic. J1
2. what uncouples him from belief in his own pretensions. J2
3. Beneath these talismans, J3
4. white linen shone around the burnished reflections of the Atreides silver, j4 m1
5. which had been placed in precise arrangements along the great table—little archipelagos j5
6. plumb us by our language— J6
7. the precise and delicate delineations for ways to administer treacherous death. A2
8. broad laving basins of ornate yellow and green j8 m2
9. more an outflanker than a member of the group,
10. fawning group of the younger Arrakeen richece, a4
11. and, aloof among them, three officers
12. ducal heir m4
13. epaulets of the Imperial Civil Servant j
14. memorandum: a
15. conservatory m2
16. bending over one of the consort women, listening to a low-voiced coquetry. A
17. father and mother surrogate A
18. remained adamant !m3/4
19. Chevalier of the Imperium !-
20. abortive movement of flagons toward mouths—stopped as the Duke remained with arm upraised. J
21. My toast is one of those maxims so dear !m1
22. guile. !m2
23. When our time ends on its rictus smile, a11
24. espionage and counter-espionage. A9
25. ominous overtones, j11
26. riposte quality m4
27. sullen silence. J10
28. concomitants— a7
29. epicanthic a6
30. covertly j9
31. gambit. A1

07/24/2016

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