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| Cot | a narrow collapsible bed for occasional or camping use, usually consisting of a lightweight metal or wood frame and a canvas surface or thin mattress |
| Varmint | a troublesome, unpleasant, or despicable person or animal |
| Plead | to make an earnest or urgent entreaty, often in emotional terms |
| Residence | the house, apartment, or other dwelling in which somebody lives |
| Recluse | somebody who lives alone and deliberately keeps away from other people |
| Apiece | to or for each one |
| Spurious | being different from what it claims to be |
| Jostle | to knock or bump against somebody, or to push or elbow somebody deliberately, sometimes as an expression of aggression or hostility |
| Notoriety | well-known for some undesirable feature, quality, or act |
| Amid | surrounded by things or people |
| Kin | somebody's relatives as a group |
| Florid | having an unhealthily glowing pink or red complexion |
| Croon | to sing or murmur something in a soft, low voice, especially to yourself or to a sleepy child |
| Stealth | the action of doing something slowly, quietly, and covertly, in order to avoid detection |
| Purloin | to steal something, especially when the theft breaks another's trust |
| Quire | a set of 24 or 25 sheets of paper of the same size and quality, equaling one twentieth of a ream |
| Seamstress | a woman who sews or whose occupation is sewing |
| Pinprick | a small puncture, especially to the skin, made by a pin or something with a similarly sharp end |
