Butler Tom Sawyer vocab
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- ingenious
- clever
- jaded
- wearied or spiritless due to overwork
- edifice
- a building, especially a large building
- stupor
- mental confusion, daze
- incantation
- the uttering or chanting of words that are supposed to have magical power
- effusive
- very demonstrative, gushy
- desolate
- deserted, barren, lifeless
- clandestine
- secretive
- writhe
- twist or squirm as if in pain
- cogitate
- think, ponder
- auspicious
- attended by favorable circumstances
- saunter
- to walk at a leisurely pace
- ostentatious
- showy, pretentious, meant to impress others
- odious
- deserving or exciting hatred, very offensive
- repulse
- to repel, drive back
- vivacity
- liveliness, animation
- deluge
- to flood, overflow, overwhelm
- shroud
- a cloth used to wrap a body for burial
- peril
- exposure to danger or risk of being injured
- imminent
- likely to occur at any moment