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• dusk
• exacerbate
• flippantly
• immutable
• ominously

1. Brainard threw in _____.
2. This may even be an underestimate as many heat- related deaths are recorded by cause of death such as heart failure, stroke, or respiratory failure, all of which are ______ by excessive heat.
3. The sun set; the ______ fell on the stream and lights began to appear along the shore.
4. Farther west on the upper reaches the place of the monstrous town upper reaches the place of the monstrous town was still marked ______ on the sky, a brooding gloom in sunshine, a lurid glare under stars.
5. In the ______ of their surroundings the foreign shores, the foreign faces, the changing immensity of life, glide past veiled not by a sense of mystery but a slightly disdainful ignorance; for there is nothing mysterious to a seaman unless it be the sea itself.