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Ambled
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to walk at a slow leisurely pace.
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Apothecary
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An early form of a pharmacist, apothercaries could also prescribe drugs.
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Domiciled
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A domicle is a house or a place where a person lives. If you are domiciled somewhere, that is where you live. The Finch family lived in the northern part of the country.
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Eaves
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The lower border of a root that overgangs the wall.
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Foray
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to rarage in, search of spoils
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Impotent
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not potent: lacking power, strength, or vigor.
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Piety
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dutifulness to ones religion.
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Ramrod
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A rod for ramming home the charge in a muzzle-loading firearm.
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Repertoire
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A lot of supplyof dramas, operas, pieces, or parts that company an person seperated to perform.
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Vapid
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lacking liveliness, tang briskness, or force.
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Veranda
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A usually rooted open gallery or portico attached to the exteror of a building.
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Crimson
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Any of several deep purplish reds.
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Indigenous
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Having originated in and being produced, growing, living, or ocurring in a paticular region.
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Scrip Stamps
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Food Stamps for underprevliged people.
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Subsequent
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following in time, order, or place.
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Mortification
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The subjection and denial of bodily passions an appetites by abstinence or self-inflicted pain or discomfort.(humiliation or feeling of shame)
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Hookworms
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Worms stuck in the feet from no shoes hook on intestines.
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Amiable
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Generally ageeable.
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Compromise
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settlement of differences by abritration or by consent realness by mutual confessions.
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Cootie
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Head louse
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Eddy
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A current of water of air running contray to the main current.
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Irked
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To make weary irritated, or bored
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Monosyllabic
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consisting of one syllable.
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Auspicious
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Affording a favorable spice.
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Scuppernongs
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S culterated muscadine with yellowish green plum-flavored fruits.
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Asinine
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marked by inexcusable failure to excersice intellegence of sound judgement.
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Chameleon
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Any of a family of chiefly arboreal old lizards with prensile tail endependently movable eyeballs, and usuall ability to change color of skin.
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Tacit
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Expressed or carried on without words or speech.
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