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White Fang
Makers of fire
34
Language - English
6th Grade
01/13/2012
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cower down
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to bow down, to shrink
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paralysis
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when you can't move
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proffer
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offer, give
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submission
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to be under, lower than someone, to give in
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indomitable
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invincible
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ferocious
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fierce
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distort
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change the shape
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malignant
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evil
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menace
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a threat
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prodigious
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big, impresssive
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appalled
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horrified, disgusted, dismayed
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astounded
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shocked, surprised
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to loom
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to hang over one's head in threat
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warily
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cautiously
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precipitate
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to cause, to fall
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osentatious
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showy
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belligerent
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attacking, warring, aggressive
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destined, destiny
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perpetual, perpetually
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continuing, continually
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to prevail upon someone
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to convince or persuade someone
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rampant
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spreading unchecked, unrestrained
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It was evidently an affair of moment.
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apparently / event / importance
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chuckle
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a small or supressed laugh, to laugh quietly
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forlorn
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sad
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shame
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perplexed
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confused or puzzled
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to impinge; "it impinged on his nerves"
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to affect, to encroach on
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vacancy
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an opening (in a hotel);
emptyness
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palpitant
"The very air was palpitant with life."
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pulsing
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vacancy
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an opening (in a hotel);
emptyness
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palpitant "The very air was palpitant with life."
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pulsing
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imminence; The camp made him nervous and restless and worried with a perpetual imminence of happening.
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imminent=about to happen

 

something is always ready to happen
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of a verity
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truly
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potencies
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powers
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