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wallflower

noun as in introvert

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Then plug-in candle warmers will be a quick transition—instead of using wallflower refills, you can use wax melts.

Potato-leek soup, sometimes a wallflower, turns into a talker at the table.

Specifically: the second it appeared in that trailer for The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

But Michele Bachmann, who has been a wallflower of late, may point the way to a more efficacious line of attack: crony capitalism.

On The Real Housewives of New York City, Alex McCord has morphed from wallflower to rabble-rouser.

His anthology, On Film Festivals (Wallflower Press), was published in 2009.

The legendary singer, who died Sunday, was no wallflower when it came to defending herself against racial slurs.

While the young folks dance, the old folks play wallflower or cards, or take snuff or punch, or talk politics.

It was a comical sight and Hopalong, the only wallflower besides Baum and the sheriff, laughed until he became weak.

Across walls and floors the brambles trailed, and the yellow wallflower crowned the ruins of the stonework everywhere.

Snapdragon, wallflower, pansies, and hollyhocks are very easily grown from seed.

Our first species is the well-known Wallflower (Cheiranthus cheiri), of the order Crucifer.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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