Vocabulary 6 Flashcards by Isa Rosberg | Brainscape

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Staples

A

U-shaped metal thing to hold fencing wire in place

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Sedge

A

Grasslike plant

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Cedar

A

A tree

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Floundered

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To struggle clumsily

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Bedlam

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A state of wild uproar and confusion

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Hillocks

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Small hills

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Hibernating

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Spending winter asleep

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Kerfs

A

Cuts

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Lope

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Walking with long easy strides

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Doric

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Columns where horses with carriage can go through

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Cochere

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Carriage port where a horse and carriage can pass

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Privet

A

Plant used for hedges

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Kilned

A

Furnace used for making bricks

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Sleavings

A

Anything ripped

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Buckled

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Shriveled, curled

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Soffits

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The underside if an architectural structure (an arch, ceiling)

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Chattel slaves

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Slave owned as domestic property

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Throd

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Tread, (walk, set foot on)

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Brass hinges

A

Hinges

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Ascending

A

Moving upward

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Morris paper

A

Fine quality paper

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Ample

A

Sufficient

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Mantel

A

Framed around an open fire

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Pried

A

Separated by leverage

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Hearth

A

Floor of a fireplace

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Adjoining

A

Located next to another

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Pantry

A

Room used for storing food

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Prybar

A

Tool

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Harrow

A

Farm machinery, roots up weeds

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Castiron cauldron

A

Large kettle

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Rendering hogs

A

Boiling pigs to extract the fat

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Tang

A

Part of tool to fasten other parts

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Stifle

A

To suppress, withhold

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Canebrake

A

Sugar cane, or similar

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Veer

A

To change direction

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Hemispheres

A

Area where something occurs

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Handedness

A

Left handed or right handed

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Accrue

A

Grow, increase

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Illucid

A

Not shining and bright

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Crepe

A

A kind of fabric (often worn as a token of mourning)

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Fawn

A

A young deer