 | Term | Definition |
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Mottled |
blotchy, speckled, spotted |
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Recumbent |
lying down (adj) |
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Bindle |
a small bundle of items rolled up inside a blanket and carried over the shoulder |
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Morosely |
in a sad, gloomy manner |
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Contemplated |
thought about something |
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Imperiously |
assuming power or authority without justification |
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Dejectedly |
depressing; disheartening |
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Pugnacious |
eager to argue or quarrel |
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Slough |
a swamp |
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Derogatory |
showing a critical or disrespectful attitude |
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Plaintively |
sounding sad and mournful |
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Apprehensive |
anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen |
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Gravity |
seriousness |
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Hoosegow |
a prison |
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Euchre |
a card game |
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Raptly |
completed fascinated by what one is seeing or hearing |
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Reprehensible |
deserving revenge; blameworthy |
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Bemused |
bewildered, confused |
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Wryly |
dry humor; irony |
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Complacent |
self-satisfied |
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Pantomime |
communication without speech |
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Juncture |
where two thing join |
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Rheumatism |
any disease marked by inflammation and pain in the joints |
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Ominous |
evil |
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Aloof |
reserved; emotionally detached |
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Disarming |
displaying no hostility |
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Contemptuously |
disrespectfully |
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Indignation |
anger |
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Averted |
to prevent |
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Crestfallen |
sad and disappointed; disheartened |
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Jeering |
to rudely shout |
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Complacently |
with self-satisfaction |
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Contorted |
twisted |
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Bewildered |
confused |
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Cringed |
shrink in fear |
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Haunches |
hind legs; buttocks and thigh considered together |
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Retorted |
to reply in combative manner |
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Belligerently |
hostile and aggressive |
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Monotonous |
dull, unchanging; refers to voice |
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Earnest |
seriously or gravely |
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Writhed |
continually twisting, squirming |
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