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Walden Ch. 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abstemiousness | sparing or moderate in eating and drinking |
| Amnesty | a general pardon for offenses,political offenses, against a government |
| Annihilation | total destruction |
| Apexes | the tip, point, or vertex; summit |
| Beneficence | the doing of good; active goodness or kindness |
| Blundering | to move or act blindly, stupidly, or without direction or guidance |
| Callous | insensitive; indifferent; unsympathetic |
| Celestial | pertaining to the spiritual or invisible heaven; heavenly |
| Commemorate | to make honorable mention of |
| Consanguinity | close relationship or connection |
| Dissipated | indulging in or characterized by excessive devotion to pleasure |
| Emasculated | deprived of or lacking strength or vigor |
| Encumbrances | something burdensome, useless, or superfluous; burden; hindrance |
| Endeavored | to attempt; try |
| Enervates | to deprive of force or strength |
| Enumerating | to ascertain the number of; count. |
| Esculent | suitable for use as food; edible. |
| Factitious | not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived |
| Frivolous | characterized by lack of seriousness or sense |
| Girdling | to encompass; enclose; encircle |
| Grossest | total income from sales, salary, etc. |
| Hitherto | up to this time; until now |
| Impertinent | inappropriate, incongruous, or absurd |
| Impervious | incapable of being injured or impaired |
| Industrious | working energetically and devotedly; hard-working; diligent |
| Intemperate | indulging bodily appetites to excess; immoderate |
| Magnanimity | high-minded; noble |
| Microcosm | human beings, humanity, society. |
| Moulting | to cast or shed (feathers, skin, etc.) in the process of renewal |
| Pecuniary | of or pertaining to money |
| Repudiation | refusal, as by a state or municipality, to pay a lawful debt |
| Reverencing | a feeling or attitude of deep respect tinged with awe |
| Sojourner | to stay for a time in a place; live temporarily |
| Squalidness | retched; miserable; degraded; sordid |
| Superfluous | unnecessary or needless |
| Tedium | the quality or state of being wearisome; irksomeness; tediousness |
| Trifling | of very little importance; trivial; insignificant |
| Umbrageous | shady or shading |
| Vagabond | leading an unsettled or carefree life |
| Whetted | to make keen or eager; stimulate |
| Whimsical | erratic; unpredictable |
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