When Heaven and Earth Changed Places
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- repose
- Freedom from worry; peace of mind
- proprietor
- One who has legal title todo something; an owner
- garrison
- A military post, especially one that is permanently established
- gingerly
- With great care or delicacy; cautiously
- carp
- To find fault in a disagreeable way; complain fretfully
- cache
- A hiding place used especially for storing provisions or valuables
- lumber
- Something useless or cumbersome
- Attache
- A person officially assigned to the staff of a diplomatic mission to serve in a particular way
- vendetta
- A feud between two families or clans that arises out of a slaying and is perpetuated be retaliatory acts of revenge; a blood feud. A bitter, destructive feud.
- stripend
- A fixed and regular payment, such as a salary for services rendered or an allowance
- privation
- Lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life
- sentinel
- One that keeps guard
- expatriate
- One who has taken up residence in a foreign country or who has renounced one's native land.
- covet
- to feel desire for that which is another's;wish or long for.
- bier
- A stand on which a corpse or a coffin containing a corpse is placed before burial
- vigilance
- Alert watchfulness.
- coddle
- To treat indulgently; baby
- bunker
- An underground defensive position with a fortified projection above ground for gun emplacements; a protective hiding place.
- denunciation
- a public condemnation or censure
- sundries
- Articles too small or numerous to be specified; mucekkabeiys items.
- vigilant
- On the alert; watchful
- pyre
- A heap of combustibles for burning a corpse as a funeral rite.
- celestial
- Of or relating to the sky or the heavens
- latrines
- A communal toilet of a type often used in camps or barracks
- seedy
- Somwhat disreputable; Worn and shabby; unkempt.
- splayed
- To spread out or apart, especially clumsilly
- cadre
- A tightly knit group of trained personnel around which a larger organization can be built and trained; zealots who are active in advancing the interests of a revolutionary party.
- infiltrate
- To pass surreptitiously into enemy-held territory; To penetrate with hostile intents
- pacify
- To ease the anger or agitation of. To end war, fighting, or violence in; establish peace in.
- reprieve
- Postponment or concellation of a punishment; Temporary relief, as from danger or pain
- dike
- An embankment of earth and rock built to prevent floods; A ditch; a channel
- melee
- Confused, hand-to-hand fightling in a battle; A violent free-for-all
- incredulous
- Skeptical; disbelieving
- lecherous
- given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity
- dowager
- A widow who holds a title or property derived for her deceased husband
- concubine
- In certain societies, sich as imperial China, a woman contracted a man as a secondary wife, often having few legal rights and low social status.
- deference
- Submission or courteous yielding to the opinion, wished, or judgement of another.
- retribution
- Something given or demanded in repayment, especially punishment
- brandish
- to wave or flourish menacingly
- glean
- to gather grain left behind by reapers
- belligerent
- Inclines or eager to fight; hostile or aggresive
- sweathe
- To wrap or bind with bandages
- subsist
- To remain or continue in existence; to maintain life; live
- conical
- relating to or resembling a cone
- scullery
- A small room adjoining a kitchen, in which dishwashing and other kitchen chores are done.
- hamlet
- A small village
- surly
- Sullenly ill-humored; gruff. Threatening like a weather conditions; ominous
- reprisal
- Retaliation for an injury with the intent of inflicting at least as much injury for return
- dispel
- To rid one's mind of; To drive away or off by or as if by scattering