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13 Cards in this Set
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Bait |
1.Food used to attract fish... 2.something attractive but dishonest Rise to rhe bait: to become angry when someone is delibrately trying to make you angry |
Gared did not rise to the bait |
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Unmanned |
Sth that is nothing or nobody inside it |
Are you unmanned by the dark? |
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Barely |
Only. Just. Hardly |
Will could see the tightness around Gared's mouth, barely suppressed anger in his eyes under the thick black hood of his cloak. |
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Make light of sth |
Joke about sth or someone speciaaly when it is important |
Gared had spent forty years in Night's Watch and he was not accoustomed to being made light of. |
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Veteran |
1. Soldier or sailor of war 2. Someone who had a lot of experience |
He was a veteran of a hundreds ranging by now |
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Hackles rise |
If someone's hackles rise, they begin to feel very angry |
There was an edge to this darkness that made his hackles rise |
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Raider |
Someone who goes into a place and steals things |
Nine days they had been riding hard on the track of a band of wildling raiders |
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Rustle |
A noise voice |
A cold wind was blowing out of the north and it made the trees rustle like living things |
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Implacable |
Very determined to continue opposing someone or something |
Will had felt as though something were watching him, something cold and implacable that loved him not |
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Graceful |
1.Moving smooth and attractive. 2.Behaving polite and pleasant way |
He was a handsome youth, grey-eyed and graceful and selender as a knife |
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Destrier |
War horse |
Mounting on his huge destrier |
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Tower above |
To be much taller To be much better |
The knight tower above Will and Gared |
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Garron |
Small work horse |
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