Call Of The Wild Chapter 5

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Superfluous

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Unnecessary,

And so it went, the inexorable elimination of the _______. Mercedes cried when her clothes-bags were dumped on the ground and article after article was thrown out.

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Averred

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State or assert to be the case

She _______ she would not go an inch, not for a dozen Charleses. She appealed to everybody and to everything, finally wiping her eyes and proceeding to cast out even articles of apparel that were imperative necessaries. And in her zeal, when she had finished with her own, she attacked the belongings of her men and went through them like a tornado.

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Formidable

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Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large, powerful, intense, or capable

This accomplished, the outfit, though cut in half, was still a ______ bulk

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Chronic

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Persisting for a long time or constantly recurring.

The Outsider dogs whose digestions had not been trained by ______ famine to make the most of little, had voracious appetites.

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Voracious

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Wanting or devouring great quantities of food:

The Outsider dogs whose digestions had not been trained by chronic famine to make the most of little, had _____ appetites

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Amenities

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A desirable or useful feature or facility of a building or place.

By this time all the _____ and gentleness of the Southland had fallen away from the three people.

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Shorn

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Cut off

_____ of its glamour and romance, Arctic travel became to them a reality too harsh for their manhood and womanhood.

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Copious

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Abundant in supply or quantity.

And that Charles's sister's tale-bearing tongue should be relevant to the building of a Yukon fire, was apparent only to Mercedes, who disburdened herself of ______ opinions upon that topic, and incidentally upon a few other traits unpleasantly peculiar to her husband's family.

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Chivalrously

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(of a man or his behavior) Courteous and gallant, esp. toward women.

She was pretty and soft, and had been _______ treated all her days. But the present treatment by her husband and brother was everything save chivalrous.

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Impeachment

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a formal document charging a public official with misconduct in office.

They complained. Upon which _____ of what to her was her most essential sex prerogative, she made their lives unendurable.

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Prerogative

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A right or privilege exclusive to a particular individual or class.

Upon which impeachment of what to her was her most essential sex ________, she made their lives unendurable

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Perambulating

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Walk or travel through or around (a place or area), esp. for pleasure and in a leisurely way.

As it was with Buck, so was it with his mates. They were _______ skeletons.

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Innocuously

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Not harmful or offensive.

With the dogs falling, Mercedes weeping and riding, Hal swearing __________, and Charles eyes wistfully watering, they staggered into John Thornton's camp at the mouth of the White River.