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Sieve & Sand Vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Peering | to look intently at someone or something |
| Subside | to lessen or go away |
| Exhalation | breathing out |
| Teem | to be full of or swarming with |
| Cadenced | a rhythmic pattern |
| Monologue | a long speech by one person |
| Suffused | overspread with a liquid or color |
| Sieve | an instrument with a meshed or perforated bottom, used for separating coarse from fine parts of loose matter |
| Inhabitants | to be situated within; to dwell within |
| Retaliation | to return like for like, especially evil for evil |
| Strewn | to be scattered or sprinkled over |
| Jowled | flesh hanging from the lower jaw |
| Receptacle | A container that holds something |
| Intuitively | direct perception of truth, fact, etc., independent of any reasoning process |
| Profusion | a great quantity or amount |
| Skepticism | doubtful about a particular thing |
| Praetorian | the bodyguard troop of a Roman commander or emperor |
| Insidious | stealthily treacherous or deceitful |
| Centrifuge | an apparatus that rotates at high speed and separates substances |
| Welter | a confused mass or jumble |