throes, amidst, aftermath, spite, wake, cusp, amid, verge, girding, weathering, during, embroils, brink, upshot, prelude, following, meantime, ironies, part, rages, anticipation, makings, culmination, in the midst, maelstrom, crossroads, despite, sparking, brewing, beginning, vortex, microcosm, actuality, faces, backdrop, engulfing, middle, coping, looms, chronicles, eve, addition, surcease, moment, crucible, dire straits, history, foreshadowings, basking, presages, bedeviling, earnest, tumult, monthlong, yearlong, ending, foundering, gearing, outgrowth, impends, miring, juncture, retrospect, silver lining, postbellum, overshadowing, undertaking, likens, intensifies, stave off, roils, disarray, prepping, partaking, revel, springtime, peril, insanities, suddenness, endlessness, enveloping, mode, offing, heralds, hallowing, imminence, aftereffect, whirlwind, precipice, catbird seat, limbo, centerpiece, stilling, headlong, heels, sputtering, fact, homestretch, fueling, byproduct, evitable, specter, ghost, summer, bosoms, graves, behalf, fraught, sisterhood, throats, an, converse, footprints, ghosts, grave, hearts, bosom, com, comforts, communion, dark, bleakest, brutalizing, drenched, mongst, tropical, alpine, arid, autumnal, barren, blasted, boundless, circumambient, circumjacent, desolate, disreputable, drear, ephemeral, fadeless, freshest, hued

fifth column, in the midst, serene, trojan horse

inside, interior

thick