Jack London: "To Build a Fire" - Vocab Flashcards
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intangible
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- adjective
- not easily defined or evaluated by the mind
2
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immortality
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- noun
- the condition of having eternal life
3
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compel
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- verb
- to force; to influence; to convince
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intervene
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- verb
- to come or lie between
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apathetically
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- adverb
- a display meant to impress others; boastful showiness
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incorrect vocab
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- mark jumped apathetically into the water, in spite of the dangers, to save the sinking man
- the little deer slid slowly into the steep intervene between the two mountains
- by the time we got the vacuum cleaner out, the spill on the floor was an intangible mess
- it was necessary to compel all the leaves into a pile before I could scoop them up
- sid nervously went to intervene for his very first job interview
- one of the reasons for the decline of Rome was the immortality of its citizens
- there was a sense of immortality in the winter air, with tress and grass all brown and dead