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Cracker Vocab set 2
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Impassive | not feeling or showing any emotion |
| Elapsed | to pass, as in time |
| Emerge | come into view |
| Casualties | members of the armed forces lost to service due to death, wounds, sickness, or capture |
| invigorted | filled with life and energy; energized |
| adreanaline | a response to stress, as anger or fear, that increases the heart rate, blood pressure, and cardiac output. |
| paranoid | having excessive suspicion of the motives of others |
| ambush | a surprise attack |
| tourniquet | anything to stop bleeding by for, for example a bandage |
| shrapnel | shell frangments |
| decaying | decomposing; rotting |
| ruckus | a noisy commotion |
| rubble | bit and pieces of anything from being demolished |
| beckoned | a signal to come here |
| deactivated | to stop( a bomb, shell and stuff) from working |
| rehab | to restore to a condition of good health |
| invalid | a person who is to sick and weak to take care of him or herself |
| writhing | to twist the body about, or squirm, as in pain |
| contary | opposite in nature or character |
| optimism | to see the positive side of things |
| tolorate | to put up with |
| euthanize | the act of putting to death painlessly or allowing to die |
| quarantined | a strict isolation to prevent the spreading of disease |
| scuffle | to struggle, or fight in a rough, confused manner |
| tranquilized | sedated or relived of anxiety or tension by the administration of a drug |