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Cracker Vocab
Cracker Vocab. Chpters 15-31
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |