1. Feign - (verb) to represent fictitiously.
The letter covered seventeen handwritten pages, its tone jumping from self-pity to anger to irony to guilt to a kind of feigned indifference.
own logic - the other words had emotion, indifference doesn't, so it must make it have emotion.
He feigned a look of concern so that they would not suspect his guilt in the act.
2. Salvaged - (verb) property saved from danger.
He watched the young soldier wading through the water, bending down and then standing and then bending down again, as if something might finally be salvaged from all the waste.
own logic - he is clearly talking about rescuing something from the waste.
The ship may have wrecked, but I am going to salvage as much as I can.
3. Inevitable - (adjective) unable to be avoided.
She never took it off, not even in the classroom, and so it was inevitable that she took some teasing about it.
own logic - the sentence made it obvious that it meant unavoidable.
When he argued with his mother, the punishment was inevitable.
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