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Mice and men words 2
Miss Wagner's seventh period class
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| causes of widespread or great affliction | scourges |
| a general assistant: a handyman: a helper | swamper |
| lice | graybacks |
| a mattress consisting of its tick (fabric case) and filling | tick |
| a liquid or semiliquid preparation applied to the skin as a pain reliever | liniment |
| a male human being: a man | buck |
| those who move or load heavy objects | buckers |
| a driver of draft animals | skinner |
| a machine used to loosen the soil while crops are growing | cultivator |
| in a woeful or melancholy tone | plantively |
| a cereal grass used in malt beverages, breakfast foods, and stock feeds | barley |
| soothed: appeased: assauged | mollified |
| having a belligerent: aggressive nature: combative: truculent | pugnacious |
| clever in using the hands | handy |
| uncertainly: doubtfully | skeptically |
| menacingly: threateningly | ominously |
| expressive of a low opinion: degrading: disparaging | derogatory |
| a prostitute | tart |
| two chains, straps, or lines of harness used to attach an animal to something to be drawn | trace chains |
| twisted into a strange shape or expression | contorted |
| shoes or slippers without heel straps: scuffs | mules |
| sharp: tense: lacking warmth | brittle |
| showed hostility or resentment | bridled |
| cleverly:mischievously | archly |
| anxious: fearful | apprehensive |
| a craft animal pulling in the position nearest the front wheels of a wagon | wheeler |
| all encompassing: complete | profound |
| with self-satisfaction | complacently |
| streaked with gray | grizzled |