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Watching God 2
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| gloomy | Sullen |
| embarrassment | discomfiture |
| humbling yourself | prostrating |
| one who assumes command | usurper |
| emotionless | stolidness |
| sympathized | commiserated |
| pretentiously | ostentatiously |
| peninsulas | promontories |
| unskilled | menial |
| a bedspread | counterpane |
| a curved, single-edged sword | scimitars |
| to act evasively in order to gain time, avoid argument or postpone a decision | temporized |
| condemn | denounce |
| a roadside or rural establishment offering liquor, dancing, and often gambling | jook |
| that which is sent is sent forth | emanations |
| homeless persons who travel from place to place | transients |
| an embarkment of earth and rock built to prevent floods | dyke |
| emission of light without burning or by every slow burning without appreciable heat | phosphorescent |
| flocks | droves |
| respect | homage |
| ruining | defilement |
| cranky | peevish |
| slanting | oblique |
| a celestial being having 3 pairs of wings | seraphs |
| quarrel | fracas |
| roughly built shacks | shanties |
| sculpture | bas-relief |
| numb | insensate |
| God | deity |
| change | transmutation |
| angel | cherubim |
| jogging | loping |
| immoral | wanton |
| skillfully | deftly |