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Time machine - 1-4
H.G.Wells time machine vocabulary chapters 1-4
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Literature
7th Grade
10/18/2017

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expounding:
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explaining carefully and in great detail
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recondite:
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deep and difficult
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paradox:
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a statement that seems to contradict common sense but which is nevertheless true
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fecundity:
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inventiveness
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misconception:
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incorrect interpretation
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pensive:
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thoughtful
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provincial:
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unsophisticated; having a limited
outlook and restricted interests
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introspective:
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examining one’s own thoughts and feelings
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transitory:
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temporary; fleeting; short-lived
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anachronism:
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something out of place in time, such as a calculator in the age of cave men
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convulsively:
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moving involuntarily and uncontrollably
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anecdotes:
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short accounts of incidents
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verbatim:
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word for word, exactly as spoken
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caricature:
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an exaggerated, mocking imitation of someone
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Nebuchadnezzar:
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an important king of Babylon who conquered Jerusalem and lived from 605 to 562 B.C.
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interminable:
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endless, never-ending, unending, nonstop, everlasting
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impartiality:
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treating someone or something with fairness
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threshold:
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a gate; the place or point of entering or beginning
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mechanism:
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a system of parts working together in a machine; a piece of machinery.
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mutton:
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meat from sheep
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ingenious:
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original and inventive
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cadger:
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a carrier or huckster
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paradox:
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a seemingly absurd or self-contradictory statement or proposition that when investigated or explained may prove to be well founded or true.
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scaffolding:
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a temporary platform or floor used to build something else
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communism:
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a system in which all goods are owned by everyone and are available to all as needed
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gesticulated-
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motioned or signed
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interrogative
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questioning
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frugivorous
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fruit-eating
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dilapidated
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decaying, shabby
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colossal
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huge
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posterity
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future generations; offspring
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exquisite
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worth admiring for its tasteful beauty; very fine
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fragile
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delicate and breakable
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parapet
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a low wall or railing to protect the edge of a platform, roof, or bridge
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temerity
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overconfidence; foolhardiness
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verdigris
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a green or bluish color formed by deposits of copper carbonates on certain metallic surfaces
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sphinx
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an ancient Egyptian image with the body of a lion and a man’s head, a ram’s head, or a hawk’s head
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faint:
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light, barely perceptible
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velocity:
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speed
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fluctuating:
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moving back and forth uncertainly
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switchback:
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a zigzag road
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solstice:
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either of two times in the year when the sun is farthest from the equator: June 22 or December 22
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rudimentary:
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basic; elementary
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elusive:
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slippery; difficult to catch
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incontinently
Definition
wildly; uncontrollably
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