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wake
noun as in formal observance of a body before funeral
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Hujar starts his recollection sitting on a couch, cigarette in hand: “I guess a phone call wakes me up.”
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No waking at 2 a.m. to stare at the ceiling, nor 4 a.m. to stumble to the bathroom.
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It was the special phone that woke him that morning.
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Without waking Glimmer, he carefully crept out of their nest.
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In the wake of that immense crime, this distraction rates as a tone-deaf misdemeanor.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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