Heart Of Darkness Flashcards
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Assegais
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A southern African tree having wood used for making spears
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Alacrity
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Prompt and eager readiness
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Cipher
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A secret method of writing
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Conflagration
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A great and destructive fire
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Diaphanous
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(Of fabric) light, delicate, and almost transparent
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Disinterred
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Unearthed; having dug up something buried
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Drollery
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Something that has a humorous or odd quality
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Estuary
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The mouth of a large river where it’s flow is affected by ebb and flow tides
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Farcical
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Broadly or extravagantly humorous
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Fecund
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Fruitful in offspring or vegetation
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Harlequin
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A clown or buffoon
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Jocose
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Characterized by joking; jesting; humorous
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Legionnaire
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A member of any legion
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Lugubrious
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Exaggeratedly or affectedly mournful
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Mizzenmast
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The after and shorter mast of a yawl
