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vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| adept | Very skilled |
| amble | a slow easy walk or gentle pace |
| bayonet | a dagger like steel weapon that is attached to the muzzle of a gun |
| burgeoning | to grow or develop quickly |
| comeuppance | deserved reward of just deserves usually unpleasant |
| commiserate | to feel or express sympathy for |
| cross | angry and annoyed; ill humored, snappish |
| doughboy | an american infantry man |
| dour | sullen, gloomy |
| gumption | courage, spunk; guts; common sense; shrewdness |
| haphazard | characterized by lack of order or planning by irregularity; or randomness |
| homestead | a dwelling with its land and buildings; occupied by the homeowner as a home and exempted by homesteaded law from seizure of sale for debt |
| magpie | an incessantly talkative person, a noisy chatterer |
| persnickety | overparticular |
| urchin | a mischievous boy |