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10 Cards in this Set
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Frantic |
To act wild and crazy "Was louder and shriller and more frantic-sounding than the first." (pg-15) |
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Sober |
Not affected by alcohol; not drunk. "She kept handing me sober looks all the time she was getting breakfast." (pg-8) |
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Knoll |
A small hill or mound. "Our cabin stood on a high knoll about a hundred yards above the spring." (pg-12) |
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Dingy |
Gloomy and drab. "One part meant that his short hair was a dingy yellow," (pg-1) |
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Clamoring |
shout loudly and insistently "Then he lifted his voice in a wild brassy blare that set echoes clamoring in the draws and canyons for miles around." (pg-12) |
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Blare |
Make or cause to make a loud, harsh sound. "his voice in a wild brassy blare" (pg-12) |
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Careen |
Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction. "The rolling cart rattled and banged and careened its way down the slope" (pg-13) |
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Spasms |
A sudden involuntary muscular contraction or convulsive movement. "That nearly threw Mama into spasms." (pg-14) |
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Poultice |
A soft, moist mass of material, typically of plant material or flour, applied to the body to relieve soreness and inflammation and kept in place with a cloth. "But as soon as Mama had wrapped his hands in a poultice of mashed-up prickly-pear root to draw out the poison," (pg-14) |
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Whetted |
Excite or stimulate (someone's desire, interest, or appetite). "It was good eating; but I’d had my appetite whetted for fried middling meat" (pg-8) |
