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Ghost Cadet
Chapter 9 & 10
Term | Definition |
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sinister | showing ill will; threatening |
wheelwright | person whose work is making or repairing wheels, carriages and wagons |
battered | damaged by hard use |
provoked | made some angry |
mattock | a large tool with a steel head like a pick axe, but having a flat blade on one side or both sides, used for loosening soil or cutting roots |
impenetrable | not able to be penetrated or broken through |
prone | lying face down |
devise | to think out; plan ; invent |
compensate | make and equal return to; give an equivalent to |
dismay | sudden loss of courage because of fear or danger |
hypnotic | causing sleep; drug or other means of causing sleep |
parlor | room for receiving or entertaining guests; sitting room |
intricate | with many twists and turns; entangled or complicated |
knickknacks | a pleasing trifle; ornament, trinket |
imperiously | commandingly |
heritage | what is handed down from one generation to the next; inheritance |