Vocab for Mice and men

Question 1

Mottled

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To mark with spots or blotches with different shades or colors

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Recumbent

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Lying down especially in a position of comfort or rest

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Morosely

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Sullenly melancholy

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Junctures

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A place where 2 things are joined

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Droned

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To make a continued low, dull humming sound

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Lumbered

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To walk or move with heavy clumsiness

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Brusquely

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In a blunt direct manner

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Pantomime

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The telling of a story without means of bodily movement gestures or expressers

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Imperiously

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Arrogantly, over-bearing, or dumberiling

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Anguished

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Expressing, agonizing physical or mental pain

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Yammered

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To complain peevishly or whimpering

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Occupant

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One that occupies a position or place

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Splotch

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An irregular shaped spot or discolored area

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Skeptically

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Marked by or given to doubt

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Liniment

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A medicinal fluid rubbed into the skin to soothe pain or relieve stiffness

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Cesspool

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A covered hole or pit for receiving drainage or sewage, as from a house

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Grizzled

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Having fur or hair streaked or tipped with gray

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Mollified

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Calmed in intensity, temper, or feeling

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Pugnacious

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Disposed to fight, inclined to fight

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Gingerly

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With great care or delicacy

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Ominously

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Of or pertaining to an omen

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Slough

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To discard as undesirable or unfavorable, get rid of

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Derogatory

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Disparaging or belittling

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Plaintively

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Expressive or sorrow or melancholy

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Mourned

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Made a low, indistinct, mournful sound

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Contorted

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Twisted or strained out of shape

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Apprehensive

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Fearful or uneasy anticipation of the future; dread

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Disengage

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To release from something that holds fast, holds, or entangles

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Gravity

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Grave consequence; seriousness or importance

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Profound

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Penetrating beyond what is superficial or importance

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Complacently

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Self-satisfied and unconcerned

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Derision

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Ridicule

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Receptive

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Ready or willing to receive favorably

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Scuttled

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To scrap or discard

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Rheumatism

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Any of several pathological conditions of the muscles, tendons, joints, bones, or nerves, characterized by discomfort or disability

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Quiver

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To shake with a slight, rapid, tremulous movement

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Deliberate

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Done or marked by full consciousness of the nature and effects

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Entranced

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Put into a trance

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Reprehensible

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Deserving rebuke or censure

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Bemused

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Caused to be engrossed in thought

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Spectacles

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A pair of eyeglasses

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Persuasive

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Tending or having the power to persuade

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Scornful

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To feel contempt or disdain toward a person or object considered despicable or unworthy

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Dignity

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The quality or state of being worthy of esteem or respect

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Crouched

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Pressed the entire body close to the ground with the limbs bent

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Sorrow

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Mental suffering or pain caused by injury, loss, or despair

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Viciously

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Characterized by violent or destructive behavior

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sniveled

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Sniffled

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Gradually

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Advancing or progressing by regular or continuous degrees

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scudded

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To run or skim along swiftly and easily