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The Pearl
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| alms | something given freely to relieve the poor |
| avarice | excessive or insatiable desire for wealth or gain |
| bougainvillea | ornamental tropical American woody vines and shrubs with brilliant purple or red floral bracts |
| bulwark | a solid wall-like structure raised for drfense |
| covey | a small flock/group |
| crevice | a narrow opening resulting from a split or crack |
| dank | unpleasantly moist or wet |
| estate | social standing or rank espeically of a high order |
| feint | a mock blow or attack on or toward one part in order to distract attention from the point one really intends to attack |
| flagstones | a hard flat stone used for making paths. |
| flanks | the right or left of a formation |
| hummock | a rounded knoll or hillock |
| indigent | suffering from extreme poverty |
| misshapen | out of ordanary shape or form |
| parable | religious stories |
| perceptible | capable of being noticed |
| plaintive | expressive of suffering or woe/melancholy |
| scuttle | a shallow open bucket for carrying something |
| speculative | based on guesses or ideas rather than true facts |
| strenuous | vigorously active |
| substantial | not imaginary |
| suppliant | a person who prays humbaly |
| tuna | large fish that lives in the ocean and is eaten as food |
| undulate | to move or be shaped like the waves. |
| Botete | a type of fish |
| Estuary | a water passage where the tide meets a river current |
| Fluted | having or marked by grooves |
| Lateen Sail | being or relating to a rig used especially on the north coast of Africa and characterized by a triangular sail extended by a long spar slung to a low mast |
| Mangroves | of tropical maritime trees or shrubs that send out many prop roots and form dense masses important in coastal land building and as foundations of unique ecosystems |
| Poultice | a soft usually heated and sometimes medicated mass spread on cloth and applied to sores or other lesions |
| Stepped | to rise in tiers |
| Undulating | to form or move in waves |
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