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Callowness
lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life.

It advertised his _______--a ________ sheer and unutterable.
Chaffering
bargaining

Buck heard the ________, saw the money pass between the man and the Government agent, and knew that the Scotch half-breed and the mail-train drivers were passing out of his life on the heels of Perrault and Francois and the others who had gone before.
Feigned
not genuine

Pike, the malingerer, who, in his lifetime of deceit, had often successfully ________ a hurt leg, was now limping in earnest.
Imploringly
in a pleading, begging manner

Mercedes looked at them _______, untold repugnances at sight of pain written in her pretty face.
Manifestly
unmistakably ('plain' is often used informally for 'plainly')

Both men were __________ out of place, and why such as they should adventure the North is part of the mystery of things that passes understanding.
Repugnance
extreme dislike

Mercedes looked at them imploringly, untold _______ at sight of pain written in her pretty face.
Salient
Most noticeable or important

Hal was a youngster of nineteen or twenty, with a big Colt's revolver and a hunting knife strapped about him on a belt that fairly bristled with cartridges. This belt was the most _______ thing about him
Slipshod
marked by great carelessness

When driven with his mates to the new owners' camp, Buck saw a _______ and slovenly affair, tent half-stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in disorder; also, he saw a woman.
Slovenly
untidy, dirty, careless

When driven with his mates to the new owners' camp, Buck saw a slipshod and ____ affair, tent half-stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in disorder; also, he saw a woman.