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8 Theme 12
Theme 12 Word Banks
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| spontaneity | the quality of being unplanned |
| ember | small, hot piece of wood or coal that remains and glows after the fire has finished burning |
| brood | a group of baby birds, also used to refer to someone’s children |
| cascade | a large amount |
| driftwood | wood that floats on the sea and is carried onto the shore |
| ebb tide | when the sea is at its lowest point |
| haunting | appearing regularly |
| heralding | announcing |
| hoarse | rough |
| hurtling | moving very quickly |
| lashed | hit (as if with a whip) |
| peat | decaying plant material found under the ground in some cool, wet regions. It can be burnt on fires instead of coal |
| plateau | a large area of fairly flat land |
| Pole Star | the star closest to the North celestial pole at any particular time |
| rebuke | a reprimand or scolding |
| sheered | dropped straight down |
| shredded | cut or torn into very small pieces |
| winter solstice | it occurs about December 22 in the northern hemisphere and June 21 in the southern hemisphere; this marks the longest night and the shortest day of the year |
| supernova | a star that explodes, becoming for a few days up to one hundred million times brighter than the Sun |
| tinder | dry substance that burns easily |
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