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In the Jungle
Descriptive Words
Term | Definition |
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Headwater | Source of a river |
Tributaries | Streams that fill larger streams |
Boles | Trunks of Trees |
Iridescent | Shimmering with color as in a soap bubble |
Reciprocate | to share the same feelings as someone else, or to behave in the same way as someone else |
Out-of-the-way | far from places where many people live or usually go |
Stump | the part of something such as a tree, tooth, arm, or leg that is left after most of it has been removed |
Palm-thatch | a material, as straw, rushes, reed, palm leaves, leaves, or the like, used to cover roofs, grain stacks, etc. |
Night-jar | any of a family of medium-sized long-winged crepuscular or nocturnal birds (such as the nighthawks) having a short bill, short legs, and soft mottled plumage and feeding on insects which they catch on the wing |
Mottled | covered with areas of different colors that do not form a regular pattern |
Idly | without any particular purpose |
Lone | alone |
Loop (around) | If something loops somewhere, it goes there in a circular direction that makes the shape of a loop. |
Twine (over) | wind or cause to wind round something. "the plant will twine around its support" |
Disembark | to leave a ship or airplane |