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Tom Sawyer Vocabulary I
Chapters 1-3
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| peril | danger |
| guile | trickery |
| vanity | pride |
| diplomacy | subtle skill in handling situations or people |
| transparent | obvious |
| forestall | prevent |
| vex | aggravate, annoy |
| sagacity | intelligence |
| unalloyed | pure; without anything else mixed in |
| ambuscade | ambush; a lying in wait for attack |
| adamantine | indestructible |
| melancholy | sadness |
| skylark | to frolic and play |
| straitened | embarrassingly little in the way of money or other goods |
| alacrity | briskness and eagerness |
| intrepid | bold, courageous, and daring |
| dilute | diminish, lessen |
| wend | direct one's way |
| condescend | to stoop to something you consider beneath you |
| eminence | hill or knoll |
| evanescent | fleeting, quickly vanishing |
| furtive | sneaky, secret, done in such a way that one won't be observed |
| potent | effective |
| morose | sad |
| felicity | happiness |
| discordant | jarring or unmelodious |
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Guinevere's Gifted Group |
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