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artillery | weapons (as bows, slings, and catapults) for discharging missiles. |
bombardment | to attack (a place) with bombs, large guns, etc. - constantly and repeatedly. |
reality | the quality or state of being real, the totality of real things and events. |
boulevard | a wide and usually important street that often has trees, grass, or flowers planted down its center or along its sides. |
colossal | of an exceptional or astonishing degree. |
caviar | processed salted eggs of large fish (as sturgeon) |
brine | water saturated with salt. |
surviving | to remain alive of in existence |
foil | to prevent from attaining an end, thwart. |
flurries | a brief period of commotion or excitement |
curfew | an order or law that requires people to be indoors after a certain time at night. |
coffin | A box in which a dead person is buried. |
burly | strongly and heavily built. |
scrounged | to get as needed by or as if by foraging, scavenging, or borrowing. |
collapsed | to break apart and fall down suddenly. |
suspenders | straps that are used for holding up pants and that go over a person's shoulders. |
disobey | to not do what someone or something with authority tells you to do; to refuse or fail to obey rules, laws, etc. |
mingled | to bring or mix together or with something else usually without fundamental loss of identity. |
ghetto | a part of a city in which members of a particular group or race live usually in poor conditions. |