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30
Literature
8th Grade
09/17/2008

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solstice of summer
Definition
time when the sun is farthes north from the equator (longest day of the year in the northern hemisphere)
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imprecations
Definition
curses
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spar
Definition
mast of a ship
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chancel
Definition
part of a church where the altar is located
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mien
Definition
manner of behavior or expression
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tocsin's alarum
Definition
alarm sounded by a bell or drums to rouse a town or call out troops
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ambrosial
Definition
like an ambrosia; sweet-smelling and/or delicious
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wains
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wagons
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waifs
Definition
a person without home or friends, especially a child; anything without an owner; a stray thing or animal
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gleeds
Definition
lighted coals
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shards
Definition
bits of broken pottery or glass
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sylvan glooms
Definition
the shadows of a forest
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kith
Definition
friends
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chutes
Definition
an inclined trough or tube for dropping or sliding things; rapids in a river; waterfall; a steep slope
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dovecots
Definition
a small house or shelter for doves or pigeons
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citron
Definition
lemon-like fruit
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tenebrous
Definition
full of darkness; dark or gloomy
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colonnades
Definition
rows of trees
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cope
Definition
canopy-like shelter
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sinewy
Definition
muscular
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palmettos
Definition
palm trees
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tholes
Definition
pairs of pins that hold the oars of a row boat
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Dryads
Definition
in Greek mythology, goddesses who live in trees
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abnegation
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denial
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garrets
Definition
attics
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pestilence
Definition
the epidemic of yellow fever that struck Philadelphia in 1793
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presaged
Definition
predicted
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almshouse
Definition
poorhouse
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wont
Definition
accustomed; used to doing it; habit
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wimpling
Definition
rippling
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