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9 Cards in this Set
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Callowness
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lacking and evidencing lack of experience of life.
It advertised his _______--a ________ sheer and unutterable. |
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Chaffering
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bargaining
Buck heard the ________, saw the money pass between the man and the Government agent, and knew that the Scotch half-breed and the mail-train drivers were passing out of his life on the heels of Perrault and Francois and the others who had gone before. |
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Feigned
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not genuine
Pike, the malingerer, who, in his lifetime of deceit, had often successfully ________ a hurt leg, was now limping in earnest. |
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Imploringly
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in a pleading, begging manner
Mercedes looked at them _______, untold repugnances at sight of pain written in her pretty face. |
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Manifestly
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unmistakably ('plain' is often used informally for 'plainly')
Both men were __________ out of place, and why such as they should adventure the North is part of the mystery of things that passes understanding. |
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Repugnance
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extreme dislike
Mercedes looked at them imploringly, untold _______ at sight of pain written in her pretty face. |
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Salient
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Most noticeable or important
Hal was a youngster of nineteen or twenty, with a big Colt's revolver and a hunting knife strapped about him on a belt that fairly bristled with cartridges. This belt was the most _______ thing about him |
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Slipshod
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marked by great carelessness
When driven with his mates to the new owners' camp, Buck saw a _______ and slovenly affair, tent half-stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in disorder; also, he saw a woman. |
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Slovenly
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untidy, dirty, careless
When driven with his mates to the new owners' camp, Buck saw a slipshod and ____ affair, tent half-stretched, dishes unwashed, everything in disorder; also, he saw a woman. |