9 Habits units 1-4
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- parasites
- organisms that live and feed on other organisms
- hogan
- a Navajo house made of sticks and branches covered with earth
- pollen
- yellow powder in flowering plants
- surgeons
- doctors who specialize in surgery
- infamous
- having an extremely bad reputation
- good
- things made to be sold
- loot
- to steal
- breadfruit
- a round, starchy fruit from the South Sea Islands
- loom
- a device on which thread or yarn is woven into cloth
- sea grass
- a type of grass that grows in saltwater
- gourds
- the dried, hollowed out shells of a pumpkin-like vegetable
- antibiotic
- a substance that can stop the growth of germs
- inheritance
- money or property left to a person by someone who has died
- homespun
- cloth that has been spun, or made, at home
- notorious
- well-known for bad reasons
- habitat
- the place where something normally lives
- barren
- bare; unable to support crops
- arroyos
- deep ditches made by streams
- warped
- turned or twisted out of shape
- chieftain
- the leader of a tribe
- interpreter
- a person who translates from one language to another
- noddies
- sea birds that live in warm water areas
- frigates
- large sea birds
- procedure
- the steps followed to do something
- reservatuib
- kabd set aside by the U.S. government for use by a Native American tribe.
- province
- region outside of but belonging to a country
- earl
- a nobleman of high rank
- gallows
- structure used for hanging
- mutton
- a kind of meat that comes from sheep
- pension
- a sum of money
- yucca
- a plant with pointed leaves and white flowers that grows in the southwest
- squall
- a sudden, violent storm
- ferocity
- fierceness
- crossbones
- the figure of two bones places across each other to form an "x" under a skull
- strategy
- planning and directing military actions
- shanties
- shacks or cabins
- gunwales
- the upper edges of the sides of a boat
- maritime
- having to do with the sea
- recyclers
- those who reuse useful materials from waste
- zithered
- zig-zagged
- foothold
- a firm position
- conscripted
- drafted
- mammals
- animals whose female produces milk to feed its young
- asthma
- a disease that includes difficulty breathing and coughing
- pardon
- an official release from punishment for a crime
- bailers
- fpeople who remove water from a bout using buckets or other containers
- murchant
- carrying good for sale
- kelp
- a coarse, brown seaweed
- navigator
- a person who directs the course of a ship
- Mayan
- belonging to the Maya, an Indian group from Mexico, and Central America
- repelled
- kept away
- dehydrated
- dry; without water
- gnawing
- as if being eaten away, bit by bit
- monarch
- a king or queen
- nuisance
- something that is an annoyance; a bother
- native
- originally born and living in a particular place
- vibration
- quivering; rapid back-and-forth
- fascinating
- very interesting
- antennae
- slender feelers on the head of an insect
- corpses
- dead bodies
- aquatic
- living in or on water
- bristles
- short, stiff hairs
- contract
- to make smaller by drawing together
- severed
- to have become cut off or detached
- tuberculosis
- a contagious deisease of the lungs
- hutling
- throwing with great force
- suckers
- parts of an animal that are used for holding som ething through suction
- deserted
- left; ran away
- citadel
- a fort gurading a city
- enduring
- lasting;surviving
- disguised
- dressed up to look like someone other than yourself
- scurvy
- a disease caused by a lack of vitamin C
- prey
-
victims
- suffocated
- died from lack of oxygen
- gills
- organs for breathing
- Aztecs
- Indians from mexico
- stable
- steady
- egg cases
- sacs that hold eggs to keep them safe
- deserters
- those who leave the armed forces without permission
- nooks
- hidden places
- corrupt
- dishonest
- percentage
- an amount that varies according to the total amount
- ferocious
- extremely fierce
- plot
- small area of ground
- bounty
- supply of stolen goods
- financed
- gave money to support
- fishing tackle
- any of the equipment used for fishing
- swashbuckling
- adventurous in a showy way
- vital
- necessary to life
- reproduce
- to make an off spring
- anxiety
- worry and fear
- decayed
- rotten
- treachery
- willful betrayal
- clone
- to make an exact copy of
- pieces of eight
- Spanish gold coins
- brethren
- brothers
- environment
- surroundings
- cutlass
- a short, heavy sword with a curved blade
- food chain
- a connection among plants and animals in which each living thing feeds upon the one below it and is eaten by the one above it
- sextant
- an instrument used by sailors to find longitude and latitude