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Mice and men words 2
Miss Wagner's seventh period class
Question | Answer |
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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 |