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Johanna
reading vocab.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| copses | a thicket of small trees or bushes; a small wood |
| grubbed | to dig; clear of roots, stumps, etc. |
| subsist | to exist; continue in existence |
| maw | the mouth, throat, or gullet of an animal, esp |
| lurked | to lie or wait in concealment |
| squatted on | a place occupied |
| gruff with | low and harsh; hoarse : rough, brusque, or surly |
| sapped | weaken or destroy insidiously |
| silhouetted | a two-dimensional representation of the outline of an object, as a cutout or configurational drawing, uniformly filled in with black, esp. a black-paper, miniature cutout of the outlines of a famous person's face |
| musk | the odor of musk or some similar odor |
| picnicked | an excursion or outing in which the participants carry food with them and share a meal in the open air. |
| unfocused | lacking a clear purpose or direction |
| silhouette | to remove the background details from (a halftone cut) so as to produce an outline effect. |