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pervasive
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  • The smell of mildew was pervasive.  (source)
    pervasive = everywhere
  • But this time he fit right in and felt the happiness that pervaded the memory.  (source)
    pervaded = existed throughout
  • Their overripe sweetness now pervaded the air with each breath of wind.  (source)
    pervaded = filled
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  • A powerful and delicious smell of cooking pervaded the corridors,  (source)
    pervaded = spread or filled
  • ...our distaste for the city grew and grew and became a sweeping, pervading hatred.  (source)
    pervading = existing throughout something
  • Though she'd already gotten used to the pervasive camp smell, a cloudy musk that seemed to hang over everything, a mix of sweat and fear and sickness and the ever-present smoke that stained the sky,  (source)
    pervasive = existing throughout
  • A foul, rotten taste pervades my mouth, and the water has little effect on it.  (source)
    pervades = is spread throughout
  • In all essential respects the little gable chamber was unchanged. ... Yet the whole character of the room was altered. It was full of a new vital, pulsing personality that seemed to pervade it and to be quite independent of schoolgirl books and dresses and ribbons, and even of the cracked blue jug full of apple blossoms on the table.  (source)
    pervade = fill
  • In the thick of this meditation Archer suddenly felt himself looking at her with the startled gaze of a stranger, and plunged into a reminiscence of the wedding-breakfast and of Granny Mingott's immense and triumphant pervasion of it.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-sion", 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 admission from admit, discussion from discuss, and invasion from invade.
  • Yet a sweetness stole pervadingly upon him.†  (source)
  • All along, I knew, I would have to be careful to counterbalance my efforts against the pervasiveness of Moody's surveillance.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • She raised the lids on two other pots, but still the odor of the onions, pepper, and garlic pervaded the room.  (source)
    pervaded = filled
  • It seemed to them as though Snowball were some kind of invisible influence, pervading the air about them and menacing them with all kinds of dangers.  (source)
    pervading = filling (spreading through)
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