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The Road Vocab Flashcards

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Warrant

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Responsibility, reason

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Granitic

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Type of stone

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Temporal

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Relating to time

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Collet

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Metal band, or collar, that goes around a bolt

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Effigies

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Shadows of the past; represent crudely

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Discalced

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Barefoot

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Creedless

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Creed=belief; no beliefs, hope, basis of life, value

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Sectarian

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Relating to a specific group with a set leader

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Macadam

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Asphalt

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Bracken

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Forrest, trees, bushes

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Rachitic

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Disease that effects bones; bowing legs, slender

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Palisade

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A fence of some kind of stakes

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Parsible

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Something easier to deal with

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Viscera

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Intestines, internal organs

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Stile

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Step for passing over a fence or something in your way

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Tableau

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A graphic description

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Privet

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Row of hedges or shrubs

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Mendicant

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Begging (adjective)

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Palimpsest

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Something that has been written over, but you can still see through it

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Bivouacked

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To take a temporary shelter

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Shill

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A decoy; distraction; a trick

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Fey

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Doom

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Bolus

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Mass

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Verdigris

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Green pigment that forms on copper

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Lintel

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Beam that supports and lays horizontally

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Disinterred

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Graves that have been moved

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Promontory

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Piece of land that sticks out, overlooking water

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Sepulcher

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A burial place

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Clerestory

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Outside wall

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Bollards

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The post and railing on peer

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Armatures

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Steel supports of building

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Isthmus

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Strip of land that connects two larger pieces of land

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Loess

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Dust that is deposited by wind

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