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Chapter 9 Vocabulary Flashcards

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Analogous

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Similar or comparable

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Ambrosia

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Dessert made of fruits, nuts, and coconut

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Attire

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Clothing

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Bawled

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Cried out loudly

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Bluff

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The broad, flat front of a cliff

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Catwalk

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Narrow, elevated walkway

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Changelings

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Child secretly replaced with another

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Compensation

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To make up for something

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Constituted

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Made up

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Crooned

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Sung in a low, gentle tone

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Deportment

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Behavior

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Dim

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Unclear or not strong

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Donned

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Put on

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Doused

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To pour liquid on

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Evasion

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To avoid

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Fanatical

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Extreme enthusiasm, interest, or zeal

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Gallantly

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Politely

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Gastric

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Relating to the stomach

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Gravitated

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To be pulled toward something or someone

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Guilelessness

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To have absolutely no craftiness

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Harbored

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Held in the mud

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Hookah

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Oriental tobacco pipe with a flexible tube to draw smoke through water

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Impaired

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Damaged or weakened

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Indecision

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The trait of being unable to make decisions

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Indicative

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Showing or displaying something

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Ingenuous

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Simple or innocent

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Innate

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A natural part of something else

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Inordinately

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Too great or too many

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Invective

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Abusive terms, curses, or insults

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Isolate

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Set apart from others

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Jar

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Shake up or disturb

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Jetty

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A type of wall built out into water to protect a coastline or to restrain currents

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Mishaps

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Unlucky or unfortunate accidents

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Mortify

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Humiliate; embarrass

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Nocturnal

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Nightly

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Obsess

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Greatly preoccupy

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Obstreperous

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Noisy and unruly

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Pantry

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Small closet, usually located by a kitchen, where food is stored

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Porter

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One who carries luggage

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Provocation

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Excitement of feelings, usually of anger

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Ringworm

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Contagious skin disease caused by a fungus

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Siblings

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Brothers and/or sisters

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Still

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Apparatus for making liquor

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Subdued

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Soothed, made less intense

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Tarried

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Delayed; waited

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Tentatively

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With hesitation

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Tongs

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Two-armed device used to grab or lift object

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Trousseau

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The new clothes which a bride brings to her marriage

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Uncompromising lineaments

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Features that don’t change

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Wary

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To be cautious

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Widow’s walk

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Railed platform built on a roof

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Yankees

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Northerners; those native to the Northern United States

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