There was always a instinct, a low whisper in my ear, that within no long period, and whenever a new change of custom should be essential to my good, change would come.
source: the scarlet letter
hybrid
malignant
staple
prophetic

The difference between the present reservoir, with its silent sterile shores and debris-choked side canyons, and the original glen canyon, is the difference between death and life. glen canyon was alive. lake powell is a graveyard. which word best contributes to the author’s sad tone?