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Diesdrear vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Bemused | lost in thought; preoccupied |
Chicory | a composite plant, Cichorium intybus, having bright-blue flower heads and toothed oblong leaves, cultivated as a salad plant and for its root, which is used roasted and ground as a substitute for or additive to coffee. Compare endive |
Garret | an attic, usually a small, wretched one |
Crest Fallen | dejected; dispirited; discouraged |
Vestibule | a passage, hall, or antechamber between the outer door and the interior parts of a house or building |
Bellows | a device for producing a strong current of air, consisting of a chamber that can be expanded to draw in air through a valve and contracted to expel it through a tube |
Specter | a visible incorporeal spirit, especially one of a terrifying nature; ghost; phantom; apparition. |
Hoecake | an unleavened cake made with flour or corn meal: originally baked on a hoe but now usually cooked on a griddle. |
cloven | a past participle of cleave |
apaque | not transparent or translucent; impenetrable to light; not allowing light to pass through. |
flourish | to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished. |
hypothermic | Pathology . subnormal body temperature |
spry | active; nimble; agile; energetic; brisk. |
sprew | Thrush |
resin | any of a class of nonvolatile, solid or semisolid organic substances, as copal or mastic |
gable | the portion of the front or side of a building enclosed by or masking the end of a pitched roof. |
gyrfalcon | a large falcon, Falco rusticolus, of arctic and subarctic regions, having white, gray, or blackish color phases: now greatly reduced in number. |
bough | A branch of a tree |
agile | quick and well-coordinated in movement |
peeved | annoyed |
whittle | to cut, trim, or shape (a stick, piece of wood, etc.) by carving off bits with a knife |