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29 Cards in this Set
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piqued
Rab was secretive by nature, but Johnny felt piqued |
to excite resentment in, to provoke
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filching
Filching a soldier's arms is a serious misdemeanor |
to slyly steal in small amounts-pilfer
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sidling
Goblin came sidling out of the stable |
to move sideways, especially in a cautious or stealthy manner
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prodigiously
The little man must be prodigiously strong, thought Johnny |
enormous or extraordinary in size or quantity
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commandeered
...fearing the horses would be commandeered by the occupying troops |
to seize for military use
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enigma
...watched the world through enigmatical eyes |
puzzle
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stoically
Women were stoically watching their pewter melt in crucibles. |
indifferent to pleasure or pain
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quintals
quintals of fish |
a hundred weight measure
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trundling
Johnny saw the Lytes' ruby coach trundling slowly down Orange Street |
to roll along
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disconsolately
Johnny sat disconsolately on his bed watching Rab |
without being consoled, dejected
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tremolo
Uncle Lorne said in a proud tremolo |
a quavering sound
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billeted
The officers were billeted at the Afric Queen |
lodging for troops in a private or non-military building
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slavishly
you've copied the handle on the pitcher too slavishly |
having the spirit of a slave
(in this case copied exactly rather than modifying to fit the size of the pitcher) |
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gesticulating
People were standing in angry knots gesticulating |
to make emphatic or expressive gestures
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repose
He slept a new, reposeful sleep |
restful
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surfeited
Tired as he was and surfeited with the sight of blood, he tried.... |
to partake of anything to excess
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annealing
..the annealing furnace |
to reduce the brittleness and increase the strength of glass or metals by heating and then slowly cooling
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diffidently
Mr. Tweedie was diffidently standing about in the shop |
lacking confidence, shy, timid
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dilatory
King George was in a fury over the dilatory |
delay
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garrulous
Dove was garrulous, indolent, complaining.... |
overly talkative
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epaulets
He did have a pair of home-made epaulets sewn into his old hunting shirt |
shoulder ornament of military officers
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fatuous
When people would compliment him on his mount, there would come the same fatuous expression on his face he had often seen on Cilla's |
foolish and silly in a self-satisfied way
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whist
When Colonel Smith has settled down to play whist |
a game of cards popular in England
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paroxysm
Boston was thrown into a paroxysm of anger |
a sudden and violent outburst
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chaise
watching for the sight of Dr. Warren's chaise |
2 wheeled 1 horse cart
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insurrection
The are all going to London until this insurrection is over |
an organized resistance to the established government
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pied
The presses were broken. The type was pied. |
thrown into disorder
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punctilious
Seemingly Gage, a punctilious man, had chosen Francis Smith because he had been in service longer than any of the other (smarter) colonels. |
very careful and exact in the observation of forms of etiquette
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seditious
...and stop before the door to read that proclamation about tar-and-feathering seditious newspaper publishers |
language or action directed at upsetting the public order
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