vocab 4 T1
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 gloaming | twilight; dusk. We stood in the gloaming |
| mortification | a feeling of humiliation or shame |
| retort | to reply to, usually in a sharp or retaliatory way; reply in kind to. |
| scion | young member of a family, a wippersnsnapper |
| sloth | Laziness, slow |
| stunted | slowed or stopped abnormally in growth or development |
| swarthy | dark-complexioned |
| treatise | a formal work on a subject |
| vile | wretchedly bad: a vile humor. |
| wrench | to twist suddenly and forcibly; pull, jerk, or force by a violenttwist: He wrenched the prisoner's wrist. |
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