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dormant

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dormant
1. (of a volcano) neither extinct nor erupting
2. Biology alive but in a resting torpid condition with suspended growth and reduced metabolism


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No intimation of danger assailed the dormant faculties of the ape-man--he saw no crouching hairy figures upon the ground beneath him nor the three apes that swung quietly into the tree beside him.
HERE is a story that has lain dormant for seven hundred years.
Still, there was no knowing when the dormant faculty might wake and smite the lyre.
 
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