Toppled 

Pg. 5 Will attacked him, and they scuffled together, grinning, while the empty pail toppled rattling on the hard ground. 

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 to fall forward, as from having too heavy a top

Straggled

Pg.3 With the straggling trees of the orchard still dark beyond;

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to be seperated from others of the other kind

Din

Pg.7 "The rooks are making an awful din today."

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loud confused mixtures of noises

Dell

Pg. 53 "You will be creeping into this dell to look at the snowdrops that grow everywhere between the trees"

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a small, usually wooded valley; vale

Wizened

Pg. 29 The long grey hair was the same, and so were the clothes and the wizened, crafty face.

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shriveled or wrinkled with age

Copse 

Pg. 32  He stood on a snow-mounded hill, with a copse of tall trees capping it beyond,"[image]

Ominous

Pg.11 "and the cawing behind them died to an ominous murmur.'

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Vanquish

Pg. 43 "The old ones must turn soon towards vanquishing the powers of the Dark"

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to defeat in any contest or conflict; 

be victorious over

Glimmer(ing)

Pg. 43 "that you have only a glimmering of an idea of the gift that is in you"

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Shire

Pg. 5 "but with generations of Buckinghamshire farmers behind her, she was no joke when the old instincts were roused.

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a county in England

eg. Buckinghamshire