Chapters 1-7 Flashcards

(45 cards)

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Dreamily, wistfully, thoughtfully

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Pensiveness

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Dignified behavior, speech, dress

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Decorum

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Line

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Queue

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3
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A gas used to sedate patients for surgical procedures

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Chloroform

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4
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Briefly, forcefully, meaningfully

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Pithily

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5
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Searching for food/drink

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Foraging

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Using few words;expressing much in a few words

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Laconically

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A fit, an angry outburst

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Apoplexy

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The top of a wall or structure

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Parapet

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9
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A blessing

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Benediction

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In a dazed state, often associated with too much drink

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Stupor

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11
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Formal rejection of something

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Renunciation

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12
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Rot

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Putrefaction

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13
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Impoverished, poor, needy

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Indigent

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14
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Pale yellowish cast to the skin, unhealthy hue to the skin

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Sallow

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Dog or base person

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Cur

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16
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Suddenly done without thought

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Precipitously

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17
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An interrogator, one who questions harshly

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Inquisitor

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Strict disciplinarians

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Party, celebration

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Where nuns live isolated from society

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Small battle

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Unsettled by something; disturbed;to lose ones composure

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Spotted, blotchy

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Displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner
Contemptously
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Attraction, seduction
Allurement
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Excluded from the group
Ostracized
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Hearty, enthusiastic enjoyment of food and or drink; to speak with enthusiasm
Gusto
28
Taxes
Levies
29
Comfort
Solace
30
Hypothesis; guess
Conjecture
31
A sharp or bitter odor or taste; pungent
Acrid
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Fear of confined spaces
Claustrophobia
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Incapable of being satisfied
Insatiable
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Struck dumb; amazed by something; unable to speak
Stupefied
35
Tame
Docile
36
Morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable
Baseness
37
Stale; unmoving; stuck in one place
Stagnant
38
Bathrooms
Latrines
39
Person who has ambitions to achieve something or become something
Aspirants
40
Crazy quest; from Don Quixote
Quixotic
41
Without harm or injury
Unscathed
42
Severe, sometimes unstoppable bleeding
Hemorrhages
43
Put up in; a civilian house used to lodge soldiers
Billeted
44
A blob or mass of something
Dollop