Flies Vocabulary (Chapter 1-6)

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apprehension

worry; uneasiness; fear

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ascent

rise; upward movement

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bastion

strong defence; fortification

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defiles

narrow passageways or gorges

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dubiety

doubt

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efflorescence

flowering; crystallizing

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effulgence

radiance

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fulcrum

point at which a lever is placed

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hiatus

break or gap

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immured

imprisoned; trapped

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jetty

landing wharf; pier

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loitered

lingered; dawdled

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mortification

humiliation or embrassement

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pallidly

palely; sickly

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reef

ridge of rocks or coral

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specious

misleadingly attractive

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decorous

proper; polite

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interposed

intervened

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creepers

climbing plants

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crags

cliffs

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mirage

optical illusion; hallucination

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astern

backward

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clouted

hit; strike

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smart

sharp stinging pain

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swathe

an area of mowed grass

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martyred

showing feigned or exaggerated suffering

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hayrick

haystack

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capering

skipping joyfully

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pall

dark cloud of smoke

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tendril

slender, threadlike leaf

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node

knob from which leaves emerge

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castanet

a percussion instrument

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vicissitude

a change of fortune

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declivities

downward slope

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tacit

implicit; understood

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foundered

sunk; filled with water

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roost

a place where birds rest

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susarration

whispering; murmuring

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batty

crazy

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incursion

sudden invasion

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detritus

debris; waste

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vagrant

tramp

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swarthiness

darkness of the skin

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footling

trivial and irritating

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gyration

whirling motion

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row

argument; quarrel

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sough

rushing sound of the wind

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sod you

expression of anger

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unhandidly

awkwardly

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