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

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immortality

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  • noun

- the condition of having eternal life

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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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  • 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
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