Vocabulary 6 Flashcards by Isa Rosberg

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Staples

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U-shaped metal thing to hold fencing wire in place

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Sedge

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Grasslike plant

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Cedar

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A tree

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Floundered

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To struggle clumsily

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Bedlam

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A state of wild uproar and confusion

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Hillocks

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Small hills

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Hibernating

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Spending winter asleep

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Kerfs

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Cuts

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Lope

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Walking with long easy strides

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Doric

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Columns where horses with carriage can go through

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Cochere

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Carriage port where a horse and carriage can pass

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Privet

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Plant used for hedges

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Kilned

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Furnace used for making bricks

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Sleavings

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Anything ripped

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Buckled

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Shriveled, curled

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Soffits

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The underside if an architectural structure (an arch, ceiling)

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Chattel slaves

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Slave owned as domestic property

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Throd

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Tread, (walk, set foot on)

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Brass hinges

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Hinges

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Ascending

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Moving upward

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Morris paper

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Fine quality paper

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Ample

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Sufficient

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Mantel

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Framed around an open fire

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Pried

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Separated by leverage

Hearth

Floor of a fireplace

Adjoining

Located next to another

Pantry

Room used for storing food

Prybar

Tool

Harrow

Farm machinery, roots up weeds

Castiron cauldron

Large kettle

Rendering hogs

Boiling pigs to extract the fat

Tang

Part of tool to fasten other parts

Stifle

To suppress, withhold

Canebrake

Sugar cane, or similar

Veer

To change direction

Hemispheres

Area where something occurs

Handedness

Left handed or right handed

Accrue

Grow, increase

Illucid

Not shining and bright

Crepe

A kind of fabric (often worn as a token of mourning)

Fawn

A young deer