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Nomadic
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A person with no fixed residence who roams about; a wanderer.
Old longings _______ leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ferine strain. |
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Brumal
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Of, relating to, or occurring in winter.
Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its ______ sleep Wakens the ferine strain. |
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Ferine
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Untamed; feral.
Old longings nomadic leap, Chafing at custom's chain; Again from its brumal sleep Wakens the ______ strain. |
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Groping
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To reach about uncertainly; feel one's way
Because men, ______ in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. |
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Toil
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To labor continuously; work strenuously.
These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to _______, and furry coats to protect them from the frost. |
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Demesne
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The grounds belonging to a mansion or country house.
And over this great _______ Buck ruled. Here he was born, and here he had lived the four years of his life. |
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Score
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A group of 20 items.
On the other hand, there were the fox terriers, a ______ of them at least, who yelped fearful promises at Toots and Ysabel looking out of the windows at them and protected by a legion of housemaids armed with brooms and mops. |
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Sated
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To satisfy to excess.
During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a ________ aristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation. |
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Aristocrat
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A member of a ruling class or of the nobility.
During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated _______; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation. |
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Trifle
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Something of little importance or value.
During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated aristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a ________ egotistical, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation. But he had saved himself by not becoming a mere pampered house dog. |
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Egotistical
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A conceited, boastful person.
During the four years since his puppyhood he had lived the life of a sated aristocrat; he had a fine pride in himself, was even a trifle ___________, as country gentlemen sometimes become because of their insular situation. But he had saved himself by not becoming a mere pampered house dog. |
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Progeny
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One born of, begotten by, or derived from another; an offspring or a descendant.
Also, in his gambling, he had one besetting weakness--faith in a system; and this made his damnation certain. For to play a system requires money, while the wages of a gardener's helper do not lap over the needs of a wife and numerous _________. |
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Treachery
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The act or an instance of such betrayal.
The Judge was at a meeting of the Raisin Growers' Association, and the boys were busy organizing an athletic club, on the memorable night of Manuel's _________. |
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Unwonted
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Not habitual or ordinary; unusual
To be sure, it was an _________ performance but he had learned to trust in men he knew, and to give them credit for a wisdom that outreached his own. |
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conveyance
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moving
The next he knew, he was dimly aware that his tongue was hurting and that \he was being jolted along in some kind of a __________. |
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Hydrophoby
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rabies
The kidnaper undid the bloody wrappings and looked at his lacerated hand. "If I don't get _______--" |
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Impending
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To be about to occur:
He did not know why, but he felt oppressed by the vague sense of _______ calamity. |
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Calamity
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An event that brings terrible loss, lasting distress, or severe affliction; a disaster:
Why were they keeping him pent up in this narrow crate? He did not know why, but he felt oppressed by the vague sense of impending _________. |
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Metamorphosed
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To change into a wholly different form or appearance; transform
For two days and nights he neither ate nor drank, and during those two days and nights of torment, he accumulated a fund of wrath that boded ill for whoever first fell foul of him. His eyes turned bloodshot, and he was ___________ into a raging fiend. |
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Soliloquized
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To utter or put into the form of a soliloquy.
" `Answers to the name of Buck,' " the man ______, quoting from the saloon-keeper's letter which had announced the consignment of the crate and contents. |
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Ruction
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A riotous disturbance; a noisy quarrel
"Well, Buck, my boy," he went on in a genial voice, "we've had our little _________, and the best thing we can do is to let it go at that. You've learned your place, and I know mine. Be a good dog and all will go well and the goose hang high. Be a bad dog, and I'll whale the stuffing outa you. Understand?" |
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Primitive
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Not derived from something else; primary or basic.
That club was a revelation. It was his introduction to the reign of ________ law, and he met the introduction halfway. |
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Uncowed
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Not browbeaten or frightened into submission or compliance.
The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect _______, he faced it with all the latent cunning of his nature aroused. As the days went by, other dogs came, in crates and at the ends of ropes, some docilely, and some raging and roaring as he had come; and, one and all, he watched them pass under the dominion of the man in the red sweater. |
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Latent
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Present or potential but not evident or active
It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the _________ cunning of his nature aroused. |
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Cunning
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Marked by or given to artful subtlety and deceptiveness.
It was his introduction to the reign of primitive law, and he met the introduction halfway. The facts of life took on a fiercer aspect; and while he faced that aspect uncowed, he faced it with all the latent ________ of his nature |
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Weazened
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Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face
Yet his time came, in the end, in the form of a little __________ man who spat broken English and many strange and uncouth exclamations which Buck could not understand. |
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Receding
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To move back or away from a limit, point, or mark
That was the last he saw of the man in the red sweater, and as Curly and he looked at ________ Seattle from the deck of the Narwhal, it was the last he saw of the warm Southland. |
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Treacherous
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Marked by betrayal of fidelity, confidence, or trust; perfidious.
He was friendly, in a ___________ sort of way, smiling into one's face the while he meditated some underhand trick, as, for instance, when he stole from Buck's food at the first meal. |
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Morose
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Sullenly melancholy; gloomy.
He was a gloomy, _________ fellow, ant he showed Curly plainly that all he desired was to be left alone, and further, that there would be trouble if he were not left alone. "Dave" he was called, and he ate and slept, or yawned between times, and took interest in nothing, not even when the Narwhal crossed Queen Charlotte Sound and rolled and pitched and bucked like a thing possessed. |
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Auspiciously
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Attended by favorable circumstances; propitious:
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Cowed
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The mature female of cattle of the genus
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Discomfiture
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Frustration or disappointment.
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Divers
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Various; several; sundry.
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Insular
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Of, relating to, or constituting an island.
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Latent
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Present or potential but not evident or active
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Malignant
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Showing great malevolence; disposed to do evil.
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Primordial
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Being or happening first in sequence of time; original.
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Score
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A group of 20 items.
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Unwonted
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Not habitual or ordinary; unusual:
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