Vocabulary 3 Flashcards
Tug
Pulling force/harness
Cloven
Divided
Taut
Tightly drawn
Shriveled
Wrinkled
Sheeting
Covering material
Palings
Picket fences
Discalced
Barefoot
Creedless
Without belief
Frailty
Fragility, weakness
Quaint
Oddly charming
Ferment
Decompose
Rank
Strong-smelling
Trudging
To walk laboriously, heavily
Switchbacks
Curves in a mountain road
Slogging
Walking heavily
Hemlock
Kind of tree
Stoke
Feed the fire
Shorn
Cut off from, deprived
Tinderbox
Something that can catch on fire
Ridges
A chain of hills or mountains
Litany
Ceremonial prayer
Summit
The highest point
Immolate
Destroyed by fire
Deranged
Insane
Impaled
For torture/punishment
Leanto
A shed with a sloping roof
Basalt
Dark, dense rock
Gorge
A narrow canyon
Bluffs
Cliffs with broad heads
Escarpment
Long, clifflike ridge
Lozenges
Diamond-shapes
Veined
Marked with lines
Disclets
Small discs
Quartz
A common mineral
Laved
Wash, scoop up
Curd
Similar to cottage chese
Pipsissewa
A plant type
Mulch
Compost, half rotten vegetable
Eddied
To move around into a whirlpool