Rocket Boys Final Flashcards

1
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Machine that tips coal cars

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Tipple

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2
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Device carrying inured person

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Litter

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3
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One leg on each side

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Astride

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4
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Inter, understudy

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Protege

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5
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Platform for rockets

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Gantry

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6
Q

To remove cut off

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Apt

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7
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Moving sideways

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Sidled

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8
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Fake

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Pseudo

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9
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Boldly

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Emboldened

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10
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Awesome

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Prodigious

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11
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Join together using lead

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Soldering

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12
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Evil

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Nefarious

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13
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Wicked

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Vile

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14
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Calm or soothe

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Mollified

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15
Q

Hat

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Fedora

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16
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Science of motion of flight

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Ballistic

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17
Q

Harsh or stern

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Dour

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18
Q

Dirt

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Loam

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19
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Not staying long

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Transient

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20
Q

Inevitable chaos

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Entropy

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21
Q

Telescope

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Refractor

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22
Q

Machine that copy’s

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Mimeograph

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23
Q

Unmoved by joy or grief

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Stoic

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24
Q

Manure

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Dung

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Hole
Chasm
26
Silicon containing material
Mica
27
Roll
Trundled
28
Cut short
Truncated
29
Slender knife
Stiletto
30
Toilet
Commode
31
Infer
Deduced
32
Snow boot
Galoshes
33
Sights or views
Vista
34
Take off
Doffed
35
Speed
Velocity
36
Lump or mass
Gob
37
Obvious
Overt
38
Shocked
Aghast
39
Tempt
Entice
40
Change
Delta
41
Opening
Rent
42
Familiar
Colloquial
43
Express emotion
Emoting
44
Small stream
Rivulets
45
Unemotional
Stolid
46
Dialect native to a region
Vernacular
47
Bandage twisted tight
Tourniquet
48
Throat
Gullet
49
To raid
Marauded
50
Tower like structure
Derrick
51
Parallel folds
Corrugated
52
Outer skirt
Petticoats
53
Secretly
Furtively
54
To utter
Brayed
55
Zig zag in a road
Switchbacks
56
Sharpen
Honed
57
Shocked
Flabbergasted
58
Loud noise
Din
59
Fake name
Pseudonym
60
Agitated or annoyed
Vexed