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    A few seconds later, her face contorted in anger.  (source)
    contorted = twisted
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    The cardboard contorted.  (source)
    contorted = bent or twisted
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    With eyes as hard as green plums, Miguel stared at her and his face contorted into a disgusted grimace.  (source)
    contorted = twisted
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    He let me walk out first, of course, but then I didn't know which direction to walk down the hallway, and so I just stood there outside the elevator and he stood there, too, his face still contorted, and I said again, "Okay?"  (source)
    contorted = twisted
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    Immediately, her body is seized by wild contortions and she falls to the ground in a horrible dance.†  (source)
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    Even Hitler, who had been contorting himself in concert with the athletes, was watching him.  (source)
    contorting = twisting or bending
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    Perhaps realizing some contortion fantasy, my uncle was completely hooked on the Body Shaper.†  (source)
    contortion = the act of twisting or bending to an unnatural shape
    standard suffix: The suffix "-tion", converts a verb into a noun that denotes the action or result of the verb. Typically, there is a slight change in the ending of the root verb, as in action, education, and observation.
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    Erik's face started to contort.†  (source)
    contort = twist or bend to an unnatural shape
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    And the stage contorts and trees rise as the dream twists into something else entirely.†  (source)
    contorts = twists or bends to an unnatural shape
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    Plunged like some writhing sea-shape into my gaping maw, it all but overpowered my senses as it sought some unreachable terminus near my uvula; it wiggled, it pulsated, and made contortive sweeps of my mouth's vault: I'm certain that at least once it turned upside down.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ive" converts a word into an adjective; though over time, what was originally an adjective often comes to be used as a noun. The adjective pattern means tending to and is seen in words like attractive, impressive, and supportive. Examples of the noun include narrative, alternative, and detective.
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    Latterly he had seen only Life, felt only the great passionate pulse of existence, unwarped, uncontorted, untrammelled by those creeds which futilely attempt to check what wisdom would be content to regulate.†  (source)
    uncontorted = not twisted
    standard prefix: The prefix "un-" in uncontorted means not and reverses the meaning of contorted. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
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    The Giver looked up at him, his face contorted with suffering. "please," he gasped, "take some of the pain."  (source)
    contorted = twisted
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    It was made of string, but it had more contortions, ins and outs, twists and turns and dips and doodles than the brain of Albert Einstein himself.†  (source)
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