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Eckley COTW Vocab
List of Call of the Wild vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| brumal | adj.-happening or occurring in winter |
| ferine | adj.- feral or savage |
| demesne | n.- possession and use of one's land |
| progeny | n.- children |
| conciliated | v.- to bring together |
| soliloquized | v.-to ask ones self |
| primordial | adj.-in a first or original state |
| wheeler | n.- harnessed next to the wheels/blades of a cart or sled |
| malignant | adj.- evil |
| malingerer | n.- one who fakes and illness or injury to avoid responsibility |
| acuteness | n.- a sharpness |
| cadences | n.- rhythmic beat or measure |
| divined | v.- discover something by guess or intuition |
| score | n.- a group of 20 |
| wraith | n.- ghost of living or dead person |
| precipitate | v.- to foresee, instigate, or initiate |
| inexorable | adj.- not capable of being persuaded |
| obdurate | adj.- persistent wrongdoing |
| celerity | adj.- swiftness or quickness |
| lugubriously | adv.- to be pathetically sad or mournful |
| callowness | n.-immature and/or inexperienced |
| slovenly | adj./adv. - carelessness in personal appearance or work |
| irresolutely | adv.- undecided or without resolution |
| evinced | v.-having shown a convincing demonstration |
| waxed | v.-to gradually increase in size or intensity |
| peremptorily | adv.- no opportunity for denial or refusal |
| rent | n.- a tear |
| conjure | v.- to make something appear |
| pertinacity | n.- the act of persistence |
| usurp | v.- to take something by force |
| incarnate | adj.- embody in a human form |