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Cracker Vocab
Cracker Vocab. Chpters 15-31
Term | Definition |
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elapsed | to pass, as in time |
impassive | not feeling or showing any emotion |
emerge | come into view |
casualities | members of the armed forces lost to service through death, wounds, sickness, or capture |
invigorated | filled with life and energy, energized |
adrenaline | a response to stress, as anger or fear that increases heart, blood pressure, and cardiac output |
paranoid | having excessive suspicion of the motives of others |
ambush | a surprise attack |
tourniquet | anything to stop bleeding by force like a bandage |
shrapnel | shell fragments |
decaying | decomposing, rotting |
ruckus | a noisy commotion |
beckoned | signaled to come |
deactivated | to stop (a bomb) from working |
rehab | to restore to a condition of good health |
invalid | a person who is too sick or too weal to care for himself |
writing | to twist the body about or squirm as in pain |
contrary | opposite in nature |
optimism | to see the positive side of things |
tolerate | to put up with |
euthanize | the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die |
quarantined | a strict isolation imposed to prevent the spread of disease |
scuffle | to struggle or fight in a rough or confused manner |
tranquilized | sedated or relieved of anxiety or tension by the administration of a drug |