Vocabulary 7 Flashcards
(55 cards)
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Twine
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Two or more strong threads twisted togetger
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Warily
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In a watchful way
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Vile
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Disgusting
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Wilt
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To lose strenght
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Tentatively
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In an uncertain manner
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Bivouacked
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To camp in an improvised way
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Threadbare
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Shabby or poor
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shill
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Someone who lures another into a trap
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Fare
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To get on/ manage
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Dwindling
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To become smaller
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Peddler
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A person who sells from door to door
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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 to control liquid or gas
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Secular
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Constant or most commonly: non-religious
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Gullied
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Full of ditches
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Eroded
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The wearing away of rocks/the earths surface
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Barren
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Unfruitful
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Middens
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Refuse heap
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Scoured
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Removed/polished
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Clapboards
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Horizontally placed board for house walls
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Spooned
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To hollow out
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Kudzu
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A climbing plant/vine
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Marsh
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Wetland/ swamp
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Sullen
Gloomy
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Haze
A reduced visibility in the air (like fog)
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Commencing
Beginning
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Transit
The act of passing through
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Littered
Strewn with rubbish
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Throttle lever
Pulling thing
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Cairns
Heap of stones set as a landmark
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Patterans
Coded signs on a road
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Commissaries
Stores that sell food and supplies
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Shrouded
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
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Sundries
Various things of little value
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Notions
Little articles or devices
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Cakebell
Covered plate for cakes
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Dessicated
Dried out
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Brimming
Full of tears
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Kin
Relatives
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Fey
Wild/crazy
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Predicated
Based
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Caustic
Capable of burning or destroying living tissue
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Pick and mattock
Tools
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Bolus
A roundish mass/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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Haggered
Exhausted
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Mired
Sunk/stuck
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Ghastly
Dreadful/horrible
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Hamlet
A small village
