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Tom Sawyer Vocab Flashcards

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Material for starting a fire

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Kindling

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Unable to think clearly

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Perplex

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Lacking quality or ability

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Middling

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Fully detailed

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Circumstantial

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Liveliness and eagerness

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Alacrity

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Pleasantly warm

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Balmy

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To be famous for being amazing

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Eminence

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A mild disapproval or criticism

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Reproach

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To not agree

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Discordant

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Peaceful

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Tranquil

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To cross over

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Transverse

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To write something from memory

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Recitation

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Commonly used

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Customary

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Characterized by effort to the point if exhaustion

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Laborious

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A temptation

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Seductive

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Enthusiastic

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Relish

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Capable of growing an abundant amount of plants

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Fertile

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Marked by keen caution

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Wary

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Humorous in tone

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Factious

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To spit

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Expectorate

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A person who is rejected

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Pariah

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To be secret and sly

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Furtive

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A following of one thing after another in time

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Succession

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Happiness and satisfaction in life

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Contentment

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A metal support for logs in a fire place

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Andiron

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A refreshing breeze

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Zephyr

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To enter uninvited

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Intrude

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Not being able to be calmed down

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Unappeasable

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Incapable of failing

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Infallible

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Capable of being detected

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Perceptible

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30
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The power of a creative imagination

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Ingenuity

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To squash, crush, or suppress

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Oppress

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To shine

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Spangle

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continually changing, a hobo

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Vagrant

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Worried or nervous

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Apprehensive

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Ability

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Facility

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A fancy thougt, feeling, or style

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Sublimity

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Sorrowful

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Lugubrious

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Beat severely with whip or rod

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Flog

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Delayed, later, or tardy

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Belated

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Intended to attract notice and impress others

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Ostentation

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Reluctantly, or to hesitate

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Waver

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Reasonable, and truthful..believable

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Plausible

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Irritating

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Irksome

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A new kind of fashion

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Newfangled

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Confusion

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Consternation

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The state of being decayed or destroyed

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Blight

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Sad

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Cestfallen

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To happen

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Transpire

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49
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Located far away

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Remote

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A meeting planned at a Sertian time or place

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Rendezvous

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51
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To fake out

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Bluff

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Fearless

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Dauntless

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53
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To steal

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Purloin

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54
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Push to thrust outward

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Obtrude

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55
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A very intense fire

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Conflagration

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56
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To be carried away by emotion

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Rapture

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Extremely hungry

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Ravenous

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Serious

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Gravity

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Producing no result or affect

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Unavailing

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A stretch of shallow water

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Shoal

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A guess

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Conjecture

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To comfort

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Console

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A person who shares

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Tenant

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Rich and superior in quality

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Sumptuous

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To overthrow

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Mutinous

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Sad

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Sullen

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Sad

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Wistfully

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A beginner

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Novice

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To end

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Culminate

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Sad

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Melancholy

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Sad

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Dismal

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Important

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Distinction

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A large entrance

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Vestibule

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To overspend, not just in money

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Lavish

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To beat someone in a race

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Vanquish

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A zoo for study or display

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Menagerie

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Very annoying

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Insufferable

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A particular area

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Vicinity

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Uncertain how to act or proceed

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Irresolute

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To talk very fast about nothing important

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Prattle

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Lacking in liveliness

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Dreary

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Showing skill

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Ingenious

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A cherished desire

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Ambition

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A disease

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Lethargy

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To become active

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Rouse

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Languid

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Lacking spirit

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To hit very hard

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Smote

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To whip

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Flay

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Not in action

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Idle

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Revenge

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Vindictive

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A deserved penalty

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Retribution

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An important person

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Dignitary

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To provide evidence for

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Manifest

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Very frequent

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Prevalent

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A habit

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Inveterate

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Stormy or not peaceful

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Tempestuous

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Crown Jewels that are worn

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Regalia

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To be unstable

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Fluctuate

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Lacking in harmony

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Incongruous

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Dangerous or unsafe

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Treacherous

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Bound to happen

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Invariably

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Capable of being detected

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Credible

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To be changeable

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Fickle

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Extremely impressive in strength or excellence

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Formidable

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Very wise

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Omniscient

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A good amount of

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Abundance

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To mop up

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Swab

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To prowl or hide

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Lurk

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In the presence of death

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Sepulchral

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Where the ship docks

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Berth

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Not neatly combed

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Unkempt

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A small crude shelter

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Shanty

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A favorable sign

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Auspice

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A promise

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Resolution

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To save or to use cautiously

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Economize

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Capable of being detected

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Palpable

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To put down by force, to overcome

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Subdue

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A security guard

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Sentry

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A contract to hire

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Charter

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Brave

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Gallant

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A deep opening in the earths surface

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Chasm

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To mark up a little bit

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Daub

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Shivering and shaking from illness

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Ague

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Uneasy

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Precarious

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Looking pale from illness

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Blanched

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Energetic and quick

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Brisk

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An ecoe, a vibration

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Reverberation

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An owner of a business

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Proprietor

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A feeling of strong eagerness

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Zeal

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Below ground

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Subterranean

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A hall

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Corridor

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To move or draw apart

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Diverge

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To offend or revolt

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Appall

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A difference in opinion

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Dissent

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To be a sign for something to come

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Bode

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However

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Withal

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Two weeks

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Fortnight

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A protective covering for a knife or a sword

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Sheath

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Very loud

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Clamorous

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To talk very excitedly

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Effusive

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To praise

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Laudation

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Tasteless in food or behavior

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Insipid

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