Vocabulary 7 Flashcards
Twine
Two or more strong threads twisted togetger
Warily
In a watchful way
Vile
Disgusting
Wilt
To lose strenght
Tentatively
In an uncertain manner
Bivouacked
To camp in an improvised way
Threadbare
Shabby or poor
shill
Someone who lures another into a trap
Fare
To get on/ manage
Dwindling
To become smaller
Peddler
A person who sells from door to door
Vanish
To disappear
Subside
To become less violent
Valve
Device to control liquid or gas
Secular
Constant or most commonly: non-religious
Gullied
Full of ditches
Eroded
The wearing away of rocks/the earths surface
Barren
Unfruitful
Middens
Refuse heap
Scoured
Removed/polished
Clapboards
Horizontally placed board for house walls
Spooned
To hollow out
Kudzu
A climbing plant/vine
Marsh
Wetland/ swamp
Sullen
Gloomy
Haze
A reduced visibility in the air (like fog)
Commencing
Beginning
Transit
The act of passing through
Littered
Strewn with rubbish
Throttle lever
Pulling thing
Cairns
Heap of stones set as a landmark
Patterans
Coded signs on a road
Commissaries
Stores that sell food and supplies
Shrouded
Concealed in a garment
Trundling
To roll along
Pored
To read or study with steady attention
Unmolested
Untouched
Sundries
Various things of little value
Notions
Little articles or devices
Cakebell
Covered plate for cakes
Dessicated
Dried out
Brimming
Full of tears
Kin
Relatives
Fey
Wild/crazy
Predicated
Based
Caustic
Capable of burning or destroying living tissue
Pick and mattock
Tools
Bolus
A roundish mass/lump
Serpents
Snakes
Writhe
Twist/ squirm as in pain
Disbanded
Broke up/ dissolved
Haggered
Exhausted
Mired
Sunk/stuck
Ghastly
Dreadful/horrible
Hamlet
A small village