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Speckled Band Vocab1
First set of vocabulary words from The Speckled Band
Question | Answer |
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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 |