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10th Grade
11/03/2011

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obliterates

verb

 

Definition

destroys without a trace. 

the high creek obliterates in flat opacity. 

Term

opacity

 

Definition
not letting light through.
Term

usurped

verb

Definition
taken power over, it looks like somebody else's creek that has usurped or eaten our creek and is roveing frantically to escape. 
Term

mauled 

adjective

Definition

roughly or clumsy handled. I feel dizzy, dreay, mualed.

 

Term

malevolent

adjective

Definition
intended as eveil or harmful. they had to expel air from there lungs 
Term

repressed  

adjective

Definition
held back;resited. it avoids handle with an air of patienly repressed rage.
Term

peons

noun

Definition
laborers. peons took rafts over the river to remain on the other side in absolute safety until the plunders have been captured.  
Term

flout 

verb

 

Definition
openly disobey or defy.while he could think at all, he'd flout both death and the devil. 
Term

weir

noun

Definition
low damn. weir-the river must be damnd strongly.
Term

provender

noun

 

 

Definition
food previsions. no dount they were.
Term

alluvium

noun

Definition
materials such as sand or sediment moving through water. for a while alluvium ants tried agian and agian to obtian dry land.
Term

fomentations

noun

Definition
applications of substances in treatment of an injury. with fomentations and slaves, they had managed to stop the bleeding and had dressed his many wounds.
Term

mutable

adjective

Definition

capable of change. 

only the most hardley and adpabaptile can surive in an region so mutable. 

Term

ephmeral 

adjective

 

Definition

short lived

beaty of things that are ephemeral.

Term

primeval 

adjective

 

Definition

acient or primitve.

there was no sound but all-envolping primeval sound.

 

Term

essance 

noun

Definition

real nature of something.

i understood as never before the essance of its being. 

Term

marginal

adjective 

Definition

very small in scale or impotance.

i felt a strong sense of interchangeabbilty of land and the sea in this marginal world. 

Term

subjectivley 

adjective

 

Definition

personal; or based on someones feelings.

perhaps most truly perceived subjectivity. 

Term

manifestions

noun

Definition

apperences of evidence. 

the spectal of life in its rapid manefestions. 

Term

cosmic

adjectivley

 

Definition

relating to the universe.

spectile of alien creatures faced by cosmic realties. 

Term

incrudelty

noun

 

 

Definition

unwillingness or inabilty to to belive. 

the look of incrudelity mixed with hatred. 

Term

chloric

adjective 

Definition
irttrabtile. a big bulkey chloric dog.
Term

irascible 

adjective 

 

 

Definition

easliy angred qiuck tempred.

but what ever it was makeing him iracsible , espically in the mornings. 

Term

jangle 

noun

Definition

harsh sounds.

he stopmed out of the house in a terriable jangle of vibrations. 

Term

indignat

adjective

Definition

feeling of expressing anger or scorn espically  at an injustice. 

indignate when he found out we feed the dog on the table. 

Term

epitaph

noun

Definition

inscription on a tombstone or monument. 

 

Term

influx

noun

 

Definition

noun coming in  a sudden arival of passengers.

there was an influx of passenegers. 

Term

forestalled 

verb

Definition

prevent by acting ahead of time. 

was about to speak when another forstalled for him. 

Term

counterfeiting

noun

Definition

making imitation of real money and passing it on.

he received 7 years for counterfeiting. 

Term

sidled

verb

Definition

moved sidways.

the tow men sidled don the aisle.

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