Small Country

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Crevice

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A crack or opening

A narrow crack or fissure, as in a rock or wall

Hint 1

Usage: Living somewhere involves a physical merging with it's landscape, with every crevice of it's environment.

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Linoleum

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An inexpensive waterproof floor covering

Hint 2

Usage: My apartment smells of fresh paint and new linoleum.

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Oblivion

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The state of forgetting completely.

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Rankle

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To cause irritation

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My answer rankles with them

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Pedigree

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Ancestry

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Usage: My skin must explain itself by offering up it's pedigree.

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Meandering

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An instance or period of roaming

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Usage: My life is one long meandering.

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Inert

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Not Reacting

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Usage: I belong to the race of averagely inert citizens.

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Melancholy

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Affected with great sadness or depression

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Disembark

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To remove from on board a vessel

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Usage: The children who disembark are frozen, starving, dehydrated.

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Fathom

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Come to understand

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Usage: I found it increasingly hard to fathom why Papa refused to let children talk about this joyousness

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Havoc

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Mayhem, violent and needless disturbance

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Abacost

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A short or long sleeves button-up jacket

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Presumptuous

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Over Confident / going beyond what is right or proper

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Usage: It is sinful to be presumptuous, my friend.

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Puerile

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Childish, Juvenile, Silly

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Usage: Don't be distracted by his puerile taunting.

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Slink

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Move Smoothly and quietly

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Usage: Innocent emerged bare-chested from his shower and slunk towards us like a cat.

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Frizzy Hair

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Formed of a mass of small, tight curls

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Glisten

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Shine, Sparkling

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Cockerel

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A young male chicken

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Waft

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To float easily or gently through air

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Usage: The aroma of coffee wafted through the house

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Blaring

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Any loud noise

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Pagne

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A native costume worn in Africa

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Souvenir

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An item of sentimental value, to remember an event or location

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Elation

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A feeling of joy and pride

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Clamber

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To climb with some difficulty or in a haphazard fashion

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Usage: I clambered into bed

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Scolopendra

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A centipede of genus Scolopendra

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Toot

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The noise of a horn or whistle.

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Usage: tooting of horns

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Clamouring

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Any loud and continued noise

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Sprawl

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To sit with the limbs spread out

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Usage: The reptile was sprawled out on the grass at the bottom of the garden.

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Hubbub

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A confused uproar

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Château

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A french castle

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Effeminate

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Womanly / unmasculine

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Tread

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To walk heavily

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Usage: ****, I just tried on something

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Interloper

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One who interferes, intrudes or gets involved where not welcome, particularly a self-interested intruder.

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Raucous

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Harsh and rough sounding, loud and annoying

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Percussion

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The collision of two bodies in order to produce a sound

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Dreary

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Cheerless, Dark, Colorless

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Usage: We stayed put for two months, kicking our heels and trying to fill our dreary eyes.

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Shrivel

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To become wrinkled, To collapse inward

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Usage: The mangoes, which had shrivelled in the heat, were unsellable

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To Harbour

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Maintain, To hold back a thought or feeling about

Hint 38

Usage: We harboured a silent hatred toward those who did on branded things.

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Coarse

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Unrefined, composed of large parts or particles

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Usage: We talked about it one evening under the frangipani tree, dipping slices of green mango into coarse salt.

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Inferno

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A large fire

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Rumbling

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Deep and slow sound

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Imperceptibly

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Not Detectable

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Facade

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A deceptive or insincere outward appearance

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Fomenting

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To incite, to encourge

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Interlude

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An intervening episode

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Glowering

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Staring with anger

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Cackle

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The cry of animals like hyenas, wild dogs, hens etc.

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Plunge

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A dive, leap, rush, the act of plunging or submerging

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Usage: I opened my eyes to find our bedroom plunged in darkness.

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Tug

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To pull or drag with great eeffort

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Usage: I tugged the curtain with my left hand

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Huddle

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To curl one's legs up to the chest and keep one's arm close to the torso, to crouch

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Usage: Ana slid into my bed and huddled against me.

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Peter out

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To dwindle, to trail off, to diminish to nothing

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Usage: The shots petered out towards six in the morning.

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Scuffling

Back 52

A confused struggling