Billy Budd, Foretopman: Chapters 9 and 10

Michael Misha
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  1. yarn
    giving an account describing incidents or a course of events
  2. disposition
    your usual mood
  3. punctilious
    marked by precise accordance with details
  4. alacrity
    liveliness and eagerness
  5. incur
    make oneself subject to
  6. derelict
    failing in what duty requires
  7. maneuver
    a military training exercise
  8. scourge
    a whip used to inflict punishment
  9. liberated
    free from traditional social restraints
  10. remiss
    failing in what duty requires
  11. liable
    likely to be or do something
  12. merit
    be worthy or deserving
  13. heed
    pay close attention to
  14. vex
    disturb the peace of mind of
  15. incredulous
    not disposed or willing to believe; unbelieving
  16. wizened
    lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
  17. visage
    the human face
  18. eccentric
    a person with an unusual or odd personality
  19. incongruous
    lacking in harmony or compatibility or appropriateness
  20. equivocal
    open to two or more interpretations
  21. twain
    two items of the same kind
  22. subtlety
    the quality of being difficult to detect or analyze
  23. avail
    use to one's advantage
  24. ursine
    of or relating to or similar to bears
  25. patriarch
    a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself
  26. recondite
    difficult to understand
  27. ruminate
    reflect deeply on a subject
  28. laconic
    brief and to the point
  29. oracle
    an authoritative person who divines the future
  30. pithy
    concise and full of meaning
  31. usurp
    seize and take control without authority
  32. frolic
    play boisterously
  33. vehement
    marked by extreme intensity of emotions or convictions
Created on 三月 5, 2013

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