The Road Vocab Flashcards

(33 cards)

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Warrant

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Responsibility, reason

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Granitic

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Type of stone

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Temporal

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Relating to time

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Collet

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Metal band, or collar, that goes around a bolt

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Effigies

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Shadows of the past; represent crudely

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Discalced

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Barefoot

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Creedless

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Creed=belief; no beliefs, hope, basis of life, value

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Sectarian

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Relating to a specific group with a set leader

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Macadam

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Asphalt

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Bracken

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Forrest, trees, bushes

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Rachitic

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Disease that effects bones; bowing legs, slender

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Palisade

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A fence of some kind of stakes

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Parsible

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Something easier to deal with

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Viscera

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Intestines, internal organs

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Stile

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Step for passing over a fence or something in your way

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Tableau

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A graphic description

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Privet

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Row of hedges or shrubs

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Mendicant

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Begging (adjective)

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Palimpsest

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Something that has been written over, but you can still see through it

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Bivouacked

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To take a temporary shelter

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Shill

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A decoy; distraction; a trick

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Fey

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Bolus

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Verdigris

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Green pigment that forms on copper

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Lintel
Beam that supports and lays horizontally
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Disinterred
Graves that have been moved
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Promontory
Piece of land that sticks out, overlooking water
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Sepulcher
A burial place
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Clerestory
Outside wall
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Bollards
The post and railing on peer
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Armatures
Steel supports of building
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Isthmus
Strip of land that connects two larger pieces of land
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Loess
Dust that is deposited by wind