Vocabulary 7 Flashcards

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Twine

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Two or more strong threads twisted togetger

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Warily

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In a watchful way

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Vile

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Disgusting

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Wilt

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To lose strenght

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Tentatively

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In an uncertain manner

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Bivouacked

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To camp in an improvised way

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Threadbare

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Shabby or poor

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shill

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Someone who lures another into a trap

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Fare

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To get on/ manage

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Dwindling

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To become smaller

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Peddler

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A person who sells from door to door

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Vanish

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To disappear

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Subside

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To become less violent

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Valve

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Device to control liquid or gas

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Secular

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Constant or most commonly: non-religious

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Gullied

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Full of ditches

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Eroded

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The wearing away of rocks/the earths surface

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Barren

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Unfruitful

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Middens

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Refuse heap

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Scoured

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Removed/polished

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Clapboards

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Horizontally placed board for house walls

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Spooned

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To hollow out

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Kudzu

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A climbing plant/vine

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Marsh

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Wetland/ swamp

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Sullen

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Gloomy

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Haze

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A reduced visibility in the air (like fog)

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Commencing

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Beginning

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Transit

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The act of passing through

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Littered

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Strewn with rubbish

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Throttle lever

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Pulling thing

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Cairns

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Heap of stones set as a landmark

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Patterans

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Coded signs on a road

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Commissaries

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Stores that sell food and supplies

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Shrouded

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Concealed in a garment

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Trundling

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To roll along

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Pored

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To read or study with steady attention

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Unmolested

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Untouched

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Sundries

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Various things of little value

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Notions

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Little articles or devices

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Cakebell

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Covered plate for cakes

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Dessicated

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Dried out

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Brimming

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Full of tears

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Kin

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Relatives

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Fey

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Wild/crazy

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Predicated

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Based

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Caustic

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Capable of burning or destroying living tissue

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Pick and mattock

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Tools

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Bolus

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A roundish mass/lump

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Serpents

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Snakes

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Writhe

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Twist/ squirm as in pain

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Disbanded

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Broke up/ dissolved

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Haggered

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Exhausted

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Mired

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Sunk/stuck

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Ghastly

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Dreadful/horrible

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Hamlet

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A small village