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c26- bewildered |brwildad|
adjective
perplexed and confused; very puzzled: he saw the bewildered look on my face.

c18- emphatically | m'fatikli | adverb
in a forceful way: she closed the door behind her emphatically | No way,' he said emphatically.
• [as submodifier] without doubt; clearly:
Jane, though born in California, feels emphatically English | [sentence adverb] :
Greg is emphatically not a slacker.

c18- figment |'figm(a)nt |
noun
a thing that someone believes to be real but that exists only in their imagination: it really was Ross and not a figment of her overheated imagination.

c17- jude was being convinced by her friends Talia, Rhys, and L.J. that she needs to take up the new job and leave the store but this made Jude mad, as abandoning the store meant abandoning her mother’s dream, so she leaves the convo and the room.

c17- sluice verb
1 crews sluiced down the decks of their ship.
WASH, wash down, rinse, swill down, clean, cleanse, flush.
2 the water sluiced out through the open door.
POUR, flow, run, gush, cascade, stream, course, spout, jet, spurt, flood, surge, spill, rush, well, spew, discharge; British English informal sloosh; rare disembogue.