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Scavenge List 1 |
to clean refuse (waste) from; to remove unwanted substances from |
Like a myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the transparencies came scavenging over the beach. |
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Immure List 1 |
to lock up or confine |
Immured in these tangles, at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned with shining eyes to the others. |
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Gesticulate List 1 |
to show, express or direct through movement |
He gesticulated widely again. "It was an accident." |
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Efflorescence List 1 |
the time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms |
It was clear to the bottom and bright with the efflorescence of tropical weed and coral
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Uncommunicative List 1 |
not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions |
He passed his tongue across dry lips and scanned the uncommunicative forest, then he stole forward and cast this way and that over the ground. |
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Crumple List 1 |
to gather something into small wrinkles or folds |
His face was crumpled, and ugly without silliness. |
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Swathe List 1 |
to wrap in swaddling clothes |
Ralph was already clambering over the first smashed swathes of the scar. |
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Irrelevance List 1 |
the lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand |
The shell was interesting and pretty and a worthy plaything; ;but the vivid phantoms of his day dream still interposed between him and Piggy. who in this context was an irrelevance. |
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Immerse List 1 |
to cause to be thrown into |
Ralph paddled backwards down the slope, immersed in his mouth and blew a jet of water into the air. |
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Submerge List 1 |
to put underwater |
Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees then they were dim and strange at the bottom of the sea. |
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Whittle List 2 |
to cut small bits or pare shavings from |
Jack had stopped whittling. |
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Underlay List 2 |
to place something under or beneath something else |
There lay another of those pieces of pink squareness that underlay the structure of the island. |
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Discursive List 2 |
tending to cover a wide rage of subjects |
The assembly shredded away and became a discursive and random scatter from the palms to the water and away along the beach beyond night-sight. |
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Hiatus List 2 |
an interruption in the intensity or amount of something |
There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream and the creepers to jerk, and the blade continued to flash at the end of a bony arm. |
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Tensly List 2 |
in a stressed manner |
The assembly, sensing a crisis, was tensely expectant. |
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Snivel List 2 |
cry or whine with sufering |
Piggy sniveled and Simon shushed him quickly as though he had spoken too loudly in church. |
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Crass List 2 |
lacking sensitivity, refinement, or inteligence |
Crass was worn away i front of each trunk but grew tall and untrodden in the center of the triangle. |
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Emboss List 2 |
to carve, mold or stop on a surface so that it stands out i relef |
Between the point, worn away into a little hole, and the pin lips of the mouth, lay eighteen inches of shell with a slight spiral twist and covered with a delicate, embossed pattern. |
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Dangle List 2 |
to hang freely |
There was a speck above the island, a figure dropping swiftly beneath a parachute, a figure that hung with dangling limbs. |
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Impalpable List 2 |
not perceptive (visible) to the touch |
With impalpable organs of sense they examined this new field. |
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Ludicrous List 3 |
laughably and obviously absurd; foolish |
But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. |
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Ineffectual List 3 |
insufficient to produce a result; useless |
Piggy tiptoed to the triangle, his ineffectual protest made, and joined the others. |
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Jeer List 3 |
to abuse vocally; To taunt or mock |
A sound, half-laugh, half-jeer, rose among the seated boys. |
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Inarticulate List 3 |
incomprehensible; unable to speak with clarity |
Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. |
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Leviathan List 3 |
something very large; giant sea creature in the Bible |
Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and thewater boiled over the table rock with a roar. |
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Clamor List 3 |
a loud outcry; great expression of discontent |
Between the flashes of lightning the air was dark and terrible; and the boys followed him,clamorously. |
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Mutinously List 3 |
unruly; insubordinate or constituting a mutiny |
Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering. |
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Crestfallen List 3 |
dispirited and depressed; dejected |
"I don't remember this cliff," said Jack, crestfallen |
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Impervious List 3 |
incapable of being penetrated or affected |
So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph, fuming |
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Enterprise List 3 |
an undertaking or business organization; industrious |
The darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair unreality. |
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Egregious List 4 |
extremely bad |
Egregious errors were caused by the tablet's failure to check spelling. |
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Odious List 4 |
instilling hatred or intense displeasure |
His attention turned to the odious favor. |
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Prosaic List 4 |
plain, lacking liveliness |
There is some poetry in this composition, but it alternates with very prosaic details. |
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Vex List 4 |
to confuse or annoy |
But this sort of thing seems done on purpose to vex us. |
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Capricious List 4 |
subject to whim, fickle |
But "there is nothing more capricious than the memory of a child: what it will hold, and what it will lose." |
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Assiduous List 4 |
hard-working, diligent |
Burke, on the contrary, was assiduous and orderly, and had none of the vices of profusion. |
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Feral List 4 |
wild, savage |
She barely recognized the feral look on his face, and despair slid through her. |
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Decry List 4 |
to criticize openly |
After the immigration bill was passed, the racist groups started to decry the features of the act. |
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Burnish List 4 |
to polish, shine |
Yet, in saying this, I do but indirectly burnish a little brighter the noble merit of the poem and the poet. |
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Zephyr List 4 |
a gentle breeze |
Listen to every zephyr for some reproof, for it is surely there, and he is unfortunate who does not hear it. |
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Cerebral List 5 |
of or relating to the brain |
The skull is abnormally thick and the cerebral capacity small. |
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Susceptible List 5 |
yielding readily to or capable of |
Children are much more susceptible than adults. |
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Impediment List 5 |
something immaterial that interferes with action or progress |
In the north these ranges are low and offer no great impediment to railroad building. |
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Woe List 5 |
misery resulting from affliction |
Woe to him whose good name is more to him than goodness! |
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Whimper List 5 |
cry weakly or softly |
The lonely puppy began to whimper as soon as we left the room. |
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Perseverance List 5 |
persistent determination |
It took planning and perseverance to be successful. |
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Persistent List 5 |
never-ceasing |
Even in her dream she knew it, so why the persistent desire? |
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Ambidextrous List 5 |
equally skilled with both hands |
An example of ambidextrous is a person who can write with his left hand and his right hand. |
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Minion List 5 |
servile or fawning dependent |
Sarah felt unsure about running at first, however Jackson held strong to his conviction that death would be preferable to living as a minion for a madman. |
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Decrepit List 5 |
worn and broken down by hard use |
She opened her eyes and looked around, not recognizing the decrepit factory. |
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Half-Breed List 6 |
offensive term for an offspring of parents of different races (especially of Caucasian and NativeAmerican ancestry) |
As for you, half-breed, I agree on the condition that I get Sasha's soul. |
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Vow List 6 |
promise |
Yet in spite of this your vow was binding. |
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Pummel List 6 |
strike, usually with the fist |
The boxer pummeled his opponent. |
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Stroll List 6 |
walk leisurely and with no apparent aim |
Returning from my first morning stroll, I again sallied out upon this special errand. |
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Bureau List 6 |
an administrative unit of government |
Cynthia was standing at her bureau for a last minute comb of her hair. |
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Impending List 6 |
to lose in time; about to occur |
The resolutions were devised to save the situation, in view of the impending loss of the temporaries. |
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Rummage List 6 |
search haphazardly
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I made my way back to the kitchen and turned on the gas stove burner for enough light to rummage through drawers until I located a box of wooden matches. |
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Petrify List 6 |
to change into stone |
An example of petrify is when a ghost frightens someone nearly to death. |
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Articulate List 6 |
characterized by clear expressive language |
Powell also thinks that man lived in America before he acquired articulate speech. |
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Tautology List 6 |
a statement that is necessarily true |
It is now generally recognized that it is mere tautology to speak of zoology and comparative anatomy. |
