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Speckled Band Vocab1
First set of vocabulary words from The Speckled Band
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What does it mean to make a deduction? | to come to a conclusion based on evidence; make an inference |
| If someone is looking haggard, how do they look? | exhausted, tired due to lack of sleep, anxiety or prolonged suffering |
| What does native mean? | to be born in a particular place or country |
| What does quarrel mean? | to argue |
| If something is immense, what does it look like? | huge |
| What are gypsies? | a group of people who live like nomads, moving all the time, originally from India |
| What is an estate? | a large piece of land that someone owned, out in the country,usually with a mansion on it |
| If you permit someone to do something, what are you doing? | allowing it to happen |
| abrupt | quick and unexpected |
| corridor | hallway |
| wretched | mean; despicable |
| amid | amoung |
| convulse | to shake violently |