Vocab7 Flashcards

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Twine

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Strong thread or string of two or more strands twisted together

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Warily

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In a watchful/cautious way

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Vile

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Repulsive, disgusting

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Wilt

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To lose strength, to wither

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Tentatively

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Hesitantly, in an uncertain matter

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Bivouacked

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To camp in an improvised way, usually without shelter

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Threadbare

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Shabby or poor

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Shill

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That is anything that lures someone into a trap

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Fare

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To get on, to manage

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Dwindling

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To become smaller and smaller

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Peddler

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A person who sells from door to door or on the street

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Vanish

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To disappear

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Subside

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To become less violent

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Valve

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Device for controlling the flow of a liquid or gas

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Secular

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Constant

Most common meaning: non-religious

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Gullied

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Full of ravines, ditches

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Eroded

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Marked by erosion

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Barren

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Unfruitful

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Middens

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Refuse heap, dung heap

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Scoured

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Removed, polished

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Clapboards

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Horizontally placed board used in covering walls

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Spooned

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To hollow out or shape like a spoon

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Kudzu

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A climbing plant, vine

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Marsh

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Wet-land, swamp

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Sullen
Gloomy or dismal
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Haze
A reduced visibility in the air, like a fog
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Commencing
Beginning, starting
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Transit
The act of passing through
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Littered
Strewn with rubbish
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Cairns
Heap of stone set up as a landmark, monument, etc
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Patterans
Coded signs left along a road
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Commissaries
Stores that sell food and supplies
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Shrouded
Covered, concealed in a garment
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Trundling
To roll along
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Pored
To read or study with steady attention
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Unmolested
Untouched, undisturbed
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Sundries
Various things of little value
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Notions
Little articles or devices, knickknack
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Cakebell
Covered plate for cakes
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Dessicated
Dried-out
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Brimming
Full to the brim/edge
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Kin
Relatives
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Fey
Wild, crazy. As in supernatural
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Predicted
Based
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Caustic
Capable of burning, corroding, or destroying living tissue
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Pick and mattock
Ice pick type thing
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Bolus
A roundish mass or lump
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Serpents
Snakes
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Writhe
Twist, squirm as in pain
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Disbanded
Broke up, dissolved
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Haggard
Worn, exhausted
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Mired
Sunk, stuck
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Ghastly
Dreadful, horrible
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Hamlet
A small village