katie's vocab
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- continuity
- the state or quality of being continuous
- perquisite
- an incidental payment, benefit, privilege, or advantage over and above regular income, salary, or wages:
- turnpike
- A toll road, especially an expressway with tollgates
- banter
- Good-humored, playful conversation. Joking around
- calibrated
- to determine, check, or rectify the graduation of (any instrument giving quantitative measurements).
- careening
- To lurch or swerve while in motion
- unobstructed
- free of obsticles, clear
- piteously
- evoking or deserving pity, pethetic
- affluent
- having an abundance of wealth, property, or other material goods; prosperous; rich:
- frigid
- without warmth of feeling
- demographic
- a single vital or social statistic of a human population, as the number of births or deaths.
- marooned
- cut off or left behind
- eccentricities
- an oddity or peculiarity, as of conduct: an interesting man, known for his eccentricities.
- albinism
- absence of any pigmentation or coloration in a person, animal, or plant, resulting in white hair and pink eyes in mammals.
- ramshackle
- loosely made or held together; rickety