Hickory Dickory Death-Vocab 1-3
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- A prearranged reply to a challenge, as from a guard or sentry; a password
- Watchwords
- A small flat round of bread, baked on a griddle and usually served toasted
- Crumpet
- Partly gray or straked with gray
- Grizzled
- Agreement;concurrence
- Assent
- A supervised, inexpensive lodging place for travelers, especially young travelers
- Hostel
- The capacity to be affected by deep emotions or strong feelings; sensitivity
- Susceptibilities
- Miserly; stingy
- Cheese-paring
- An extravagant or errratic notion or action
- Vagaries
- An idea or opinion based on insufficiently conclusive evidence; a conjecture
- Surmise
- To throw into confusion or disorder; entangle
- Embroil
- Speaking, writing, written in, or conposed of several languages; mixture or confusion
- Polyglot
- Eyeglasses clipped to the bridge of the nose
- Pince-nez
- A meal of the food eaten or provided at a meal
- Repast
- A bag carried by a strap on your back or shoulder
- Rucksack
- Of, relating to, derived from, or containing boron
- Boracic
- To count off or name one by one; list
- Enumerated
- A historical region and former principality in west-central Russia- centered on Moscow, it was founded c. 1280 and existed as a seperate entity until the 16th century, when it was united with another principality to form the nucleus of the early Russian
- Muscovy
- Deeply absorbed; engrossed
- Rapt
- A gem, such as a diamond, that is set alone
- Solitaire
- Between; in an intermediate position; neither wholly one thing nor another
- Betwixt
- A woman hired to do cleaning or similar work, usually in a large building
- Charwoman
- Very irritable
- Waspish
- A raincoat
- Mackintosh
- Presumptuous and insulting in manner or speech; arrogant
- Insolent
- Sharp or bitter in tone or meaningl; cutting
- Tartly
- A pate made from goose liver (marinated in cognac) and truffles
- Foie gras
- Aggressively hostile; disposed to fight; pugnacious
- Truculent
- A collection of items held or bound together
- Sheaf
- While
- Whilst
- Solidly built; sturdy; chubby, plump
- Stocky
- Assumed or simulated to impress others
- Affected