Maniac Magee Vocabulary Brinley Croft

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Emanations

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The act of something leaving something else

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Matinees

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A musical or dramatic performance held in the daytime

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Nicotine

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A colorless, oily, water-soluble, highly toxic, liquid alkaloid found in tobacco and valued as an insecticide

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Paralyzed

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To bring to a condition of helpless stoppage, inactivity, or inability to act

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Maw

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The mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, especially a carnivorous mammal

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Twanged

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To give out a sharp, vibrating sound

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Cinders

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A partially or mostly burned piece of coal, wood,etc.

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Whizzing

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To make a humming, buzzing, or hissing sound, as an object passing swiftly through the air

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Teeing

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The starting place, usually a hard mound of earth, at the beginning of play for each hole

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Blemish

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A mark that detracts from appearance, as a pimple or scar

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Jutted

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To extend beyond the main body or line

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Befuddled

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To confuse, as with glib statements or arguments

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Finicky

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Fussy about one's needs or requirements

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Prospects

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The possibility or likelihood of some future event occurring

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Grates

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To drain the sewage out of the sewer

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Solitude

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The state or situation of being alone

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Converged

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Tend to meet at a point

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Clotted

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Form or cause to form into clots

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Jabbered

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Talk rapidly and excitedly but with little sense

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Propel

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Drive, push, or cause to move in a particular direction, typically forward

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Coot

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A foolish or crotchety person, especially one who is old

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Contortions

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Something contorted or twisted, as in position or meaning

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Intents

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Something that is intended, purpose, design, intention

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Immortality

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Immortal condition or quality, unending life

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Sleazy

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Squalid, sordid, filthy, dilapidated

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Robust

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Strong and healthy, strongly or stoutly built

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Maddening

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Driving to madness or frenzy, infuriating or exasperating

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Recognition

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The identification of something as having been previously seen, heard, known, etc.

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Fungoes

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When a batter tosses the ball up to hit for himself

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Grizzled

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To have gray or almost gray hair.

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Repertoire

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The list of work's existing in a particular field

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Blarney

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Flattering or wheedling talk, deceptive or misleading talk, nonsense, hooey

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Flaunting

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To parade or display oneself defiantly, or boldly

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Knack

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A special skill or tendecey

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Pommel

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A knob, as on the hit of a sword

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Orneriest

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Stubborn or ugly

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Groused

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To grumble, complain

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Thronged

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A multitude of people crowded or assembled together, crowd

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Deputized

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To act as a deputy, substitute

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Dispersing

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To drive or send off in various directions

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Languished

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Become weak or feeble, droop, fade

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Cr'eche

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A small or large modeled representation of Mary, Joseph, and others around the crib of Jesus in the stable at Bethlehem (At Christmas)

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Bided

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To wait patiently for the right moment

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Filigreed

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Filigree: lace-like ornamental work of twisted gold or silver wire. To decorate with filigree

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Crudely

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In an unrefined or natural state, raw

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Stoic

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Someone who is seemingly indifferent to grief, pain, pleasure, etc.

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Pallbearers

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One of the people who carry the coffin at a funeral

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Careening

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(of a vehicle) to lean, sway, or tip to one side while in motion

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Mortar

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A bowl used to hold substances while they are crushed or ground with a pestle

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Gaunt

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Extremely thin and bony, bleak, desolate, or grim, as places or things

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Beseeching

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To implore urgently, to beg eagerly for, solicit, to make urgent appeal

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Lambusting

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To beat or whip severely, to reprimand or berate harshly: censure: excoriate

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Smithereens

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Small pieces; bits

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Mongrel

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A dog of mixed or indeterminate breed, any animal or plant resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varietes

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Carrion

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Dead and putrefying flesh, rottenness, anything vile

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Nonchalantly

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Coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual

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Mite

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Any of numerous small to microscope arachnids of the subclass Acari, including species that are parasitic on animals and plants or that feed on decaying matter and stored foods

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Shamble

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A slaughterhouse, any place of carnage,any scene of destruction, any scene, place, or thing in disorder

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Stogie

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A long, slender, roughly made, inexpensive cigar

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Pillbox

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A small, low structure of reinforced concrete, enclosing machine guns, and employed as a minor fortress in warfare

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Sauntered

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To walk in a leisurely gait; stroll

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Gauntlet

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A medieval glove, as of mail or plate, worn by a knight in armor to protect the hand