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recluse
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    Even though McCandless rebuffed Tracy's advances, Burres makes it clear that he was no recluse: "He had agood time when he was around people, areal good time."  (source)
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    You said he is a recluse?  (source)
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    The affable man gradually turned into a grouchy, taciturn recluse.  (source)
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    I sometimes felt a twinge of remorse, when passing by the old place, at ever having taken part in what must have been sheer torment to Arthur Radley—what reasonable recluse wants children peeping through his shutters, delivering greetings on the end of a fishing-pole, wandering in his collards at night?  (source)
    recluse = person who avoids contact with others
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    It was Wei Cheng, the reclusive, mysterious husband of Shen Yufei from the Frontiers of Science.†  (source)
    reclusive = withdrawn from society (avoiding contact with others)
    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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    In a by-yard, there was a wilderness of empty casks, which had a certain sour remembrance of better days lingering about them; but it was too sour to be accepted as a sample of the beer that was gone,—and in this respect I remember those recluses as being like most others.  (source)
    recluses = people withdrawn from society (living alone and avoiding contact)
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    There were surprised looks from the members of the council, most of whom were unaware that the Thief's reclusion had been a sham.†  (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.
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    Her reclusiveness proved no barrier to the county's continued efforts to market her literary classic—or to market itself by using the book's celebrity.  (source)
    reclusiveness = state of living alone and avoiding contact with others
    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.
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    That direful mishap was at the bottom of his temporary recluseness.†  (source)
    recluseness = the quality of living alone and avoiding contact
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    Their leader was a mysterious, illiterate, one-eyed recluse named Mullah Omar, who, Rasheed said with some amusement, called himself Ameer-ul-Mumineen, Leader of the Faithful.  (source)
    recluse = someone withdrawn from society (living alone and avoiding contact)
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    Taking the envelope in hand, the Count was half expecting to find it addressed to Comrade, but there (under two postage stamps bearing the likeness of Lenin) was the Count's full name—written in an indifferently groomed, relatively reclusive, occasionally argumentative script.†  (source)
    reclusive = withdrawn from society (avoiding contact with others)
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    Instead of starting junior high school, I lived like the Victorian recluses I read about.†  (source)
    recluses = people withdrawn from society (living alone and avoiding contact)
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    For mark you here, Mr. David: we could no doubt find some men of the Covenant who would swear to your reclusion; but once they were in the box, we could no longer check their testimony, and some word of your friend Mr. Thomson must certainly crop out.†  (source)
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