Wordmasters List 2

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alley (1)

Back 1

1. a narrow street or passage between or behind buildings, especially in a city

2. a narrow lane giving access to the area behind a row of houses

3. a path or walkway between garden beds, trees, or other landscape elements, as in a park

4. a bowling lane

5. the space between the two outer sets of lines on each side of a tennis court, used only in doubles.

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alley (2)

Back 2

a large, special playing marble often used as a shooter

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brackish

Back 3

1. somewhat salty; briny

2. distasteful; unsavory

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briny (adjective)

Back 4

of or like brine or salt water; very salty

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briny (noun)

Back 5

the ocean or sea

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brood (noun)

Back 6

1. a group of young birds or other animals hatched or born at the same time to one mother.

2. the children belonging to one family

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brood (verb)

Back 7

1. to sit on eggs and cause to hatch

2. to protect young birds by covering with the body or wings

3. to sit on eggs in order to hatch them.

4. to ponder or deliberate, often moodily, a single subject.

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brood (adjective)

Back 8

kept for the purpose of breeding

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cape 1

Back 9

a sleeveless, loose-fitting garment that fastens at the neck and hangs loosely from the shoulders.

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cape 2

Back 10

a point of land jutting into a large body of water

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cove (noun)

Back 11

1. a small recess in a shoreline; bay

2. any sheltered recess, such as a cave or alcove

3. a narrow passage as through mountains or woods

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cove (verb)

Back 12

to make into or become a cove

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engulf

Back 13

to cover entirely; envelop as by an abyss or flood

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estuary

Back 14

1. the wide part of a rivers lower end, where it meets the tides of the sea.

2. an inlet of the sea that meets a rivers lower end.

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extract (verb)

Back 15

1. to remove or take out by use of force.

2. to obtain with effort