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Back	My Digital Vocabulary Glossary
Word	How it was used in the book.	What the dictionary says.
concession	It seemed to me that showing up at school at all on a bright August-like October morning made for running the cool forest trails and wading barefoot in the forest pond was concession enough; Sunday clothing was asking too much.
irritatingly	His disposition had been irritatingly sour lately.
imprisoned	There was little I could do in a dress, and as for shoes, they imprisoned freedom -loving feet accustomed to the feel of the warm earth.
slyly	He smiled slyly.
undaunted	"Isn't no need getting' mad," E.G.. replied undaunted.
delta	As the river ends, it spreads out, forming a wide delta.
morosely	"I tell yaw, Stacey, man," said E.G.. morosely.
amiably	Stacey pulled back, considering whether or not E.G. words were offensive, but T.J. immediately erased the question by continuing amiably.
sheepishly	Jeremy, smiling sheepishly waved a timid good-bye and slowly followed her.
timid	Jeremy, smiling sheepishly waved a timid good-bye and slowly followed her.
rapped	She rapped the desk with a ruler, although the room was perfectly still.
anticipation	My anticipation at having my own book ebbed to a sinking disappointment.
monotonously	I found a story about a boy and his dog lost in a cave and began reading while Miss Crocker's voice droned on monotonously.
unblinkingly	Then, holding up her head, she gazed unblinkingly down at me.
questioningly	Miss Crocker looked questioningly at me.
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abruptly	She stopped abruptly and stared in amazement at Mama.
maverick	Teacher Training School at nineteen, she was still considered by many of the other teachers as a disrupting maverick.
sinewy	She was tawny-colored, thin and sinewy, with delicate features in a strong-jawed face.
formidable	But now, gazing upward at the most formidable-looking being we had ever encountered, we huddle closer to Papa.
resiliency	At first the rain had merely splotched the dust, which seemed to be rejoicing in it's own resiliency.
endured	Each morning and evening, we could have more easily endured the journey between home and school.
embittered	Each day when he found his clean clothes splashed red by the school bus, he became more embittered until finally one day he stomped angrily into the kitchen and exploded.
snuffer	Has anybody seen the candle snuffer?
remnants	Lawrence's letter had been sent from Jamaica, where Admiral Vernon's fleet and the remnants of General Wentwarth's army had retreated.
carrion	They even eat carrion.
toxic immobility	It's known as toxic immobility.
pectoral fin	I see the white tips of each pectoral fin.
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fire lock	"That he owns a new fire lock.
fet lock	Mud was fetlock-deep and the stream ran from bank to bank, so I didn't get there for almost an half an hour.
mare	To buy one horse, a mare.
suspicions	I'd had suspicions for a long time that he was hiding money.
persecution	We had not fled from persecution, but we had been dispossessed of our farm and its belongings.
pursed	Mr. Pennywell pursed his lips.
preposterous	"Preposterous!"
hastily	Captain Cunningham had hastily scribbled down.