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Scavenge |
to clean (waste) from; to remove unwanted substance from. |
Lake myriad of tiny teeth in a saw, the transparencies came scavenging over the beach. |
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Immure |
To lock up or confine. |
In these tangle, at perhaps their most difficult moment, Ralph turned with shining eyes to the others. |
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Gesticulate |
To show, express or direct through movement. |
He gesticulated widely again." It was an accident." |
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Efflorescene |
The time and process of budding and unfolding of blossoms. |
It was a clear to the bottom and bright with the efflorescence of tropical weed and coral. |
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Uncommunicative |
not inclined to talk or give information or express opinions. |
His tongue passed across his dry lips and scanned the uncommunicative forest then again he stole forward and cast this way and that over the ground. |
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Crumple |
to gather something into small wrinkles or folds. |
His face was crumpled and freckled. |
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Swathe |
to wrap in swadding clothes |
His hands were swathed in bandages. |
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Irrelevance |
The lack of a relation of something to the matter at hand. |
The document was withheld on grounds of irrelevance. |
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Immerse |
to cause to be thrown into. |
Ralph paddled backwards down the slope; immersed his mouth and blew a jet of water into the air. |
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Submerge |
to put underwater. |
Darkness poured out,submerging the ways between the trees until they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea. |
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whittle |
to cut small bits or pare shavings from; |
Jack had stopped whittling |
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undelay |
to place something under or beneath something else |
There lay another of those pieces of pink squareness that underlay the structure of the island. |
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Discursive |
Tending to cover a wide range of subjects; |
The assembly shredded away and because a discursive and random scatter from the palms. |
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Hiatus |
an interruption in the intensity or amount of something |
There came a pause, a hiatus, the pig continued to scream |
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Tensely |
In a manner |
The assembly, sensing a crisis, was tensely expectant |
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snivel |
Cry or whine with snuffling |
Piggy sniveled and Simon shushed him quickly as though he had spoken too loudly at church. |
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Grass |
Lacking sensitivity, refinement or intelligence |
Grass was worn away in front of each trunk but grew tall and introdent in tile center of the triangle. |
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Emboss |
To carve, mold, or stamp on a surface so that is stands out in relief |
Between the point worn away into a little hole, embossed pattern. |
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Dangle |
to hang freely |
A figure that hung with dangling limbs. |
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Impalpable |
not perceptible (visible) to the touch |
With impalpable organs of sense they examined this new field. |
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Ludicrous |
Laughably and obviously absurd; foolish |
But Piggy, for all his ludicrous body, had brains. |
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ineffectual |
Insufficient to produce a result; useless |
Piggy tiptoed to the triangle, his ineffectual protest made, and joined the others. |
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jeer |
To abuse vocally; To taunt or mock |
A sound, half-laugh, half-jeer, rose among the seated boys. |
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inarticulate |
Incomprehensible; unable to speak with clarity. |
Sentence: Simon became inarticulate in his effort to express mankind's essential illness. |
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leviathan |
Something very large; giant sea creature in the Bible. |
Then the sleeping leviathan breathed out, the waters rose, the weed streamed, and thewater boiled over the table rock with a roar. |
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clamor |
A loud outcry; great expression of discontent |
Between the flashes of lightning the air was dark and terrible; and the boys followed him,clamorously. |
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mutinously |
Unruly; insubordinate or constituting a mutiny |
Mutinously, the boys fell silent or muttering. |
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crestfallen |
Dispirited and depressed; dejected |
i don't remember this cliff said Jack, crestfallenImpervious Incapable of being penetrated or affected. |
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impervious |
Incapable of being penetrated or affected. |
So they sat, the rocking, tapping, impervious Roger and Ralph. |
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Enterprise |
An undertaking or business organization; industrious |
The darkness and desperate enterprise gave the night a kind of dentist's chair unreality. |
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Egregious |
extremely bad |
The Student who threw sloppy joes across the cafeteria was punished for his egregious behavior. |
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Odious |
instilling hatred or intense displeasure |
Mark was assigned the odious task of cleaning the cat's liter box. |
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Prosaic |
plain, lacking liveliness |
Heather's prosaic recital of the poem bored the audience. |
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vex |
to confuse or annoy |
My little brother vex me by poking me in the ribs for hours on end |
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Capricious |
subject to whim, fickle |
The young girls capricious tendencies made it difficult for her to focus on achieving her goals. |
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Assiduous |
hard working,diligent |
The construction workers erected the skyscrapers during two years of assiduous labor. |
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Feral |
wild savage |
that beast looks so feral that I would fear being alone with it. |
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Decry |
to critise openly |
The kind video rental clerk decry the policy of charging statements late fees. |
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Burnish |
to polish, shine
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His mother asked him to burnish the silverware before setting the table. |
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Zephyr |
a gentle breeze |
If not for the zephyr that were blowing and cooling us, our room would've been unbearably hot. |
