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| veldt | the open country, bearing grass, bushes, or shrubs, or thinly forested, characteristic of parts of southern Africa |
| nursery | a room or place set apart for young children |
| thatched | a material, as straw, rushes, leaves, or the like, used to cover roofs, grain stacks, etc. straw covered |
| glade | an open place in a forest; clearing |
| jaunt | a short journey, especially one taken for pleasure |
| tapestry | a fabric consisting of a warp upon with colored threads are woven by hand to produce a design, often pictorial, used for wall hanging, furniture coverings, etc. |
| appalled | to fill or overcome with horror, consternation, or fear; dismay |
| bemused | bewildered or confused; lost in though; preoccupied |
| subsided | to become quiet, less active, or less violent; abate |
| contraption | a mechanical contrivance; gadget; device |
| joviality | being jolly |
| lurking | to lie or wait in concealment, as a person in ambush; remain in or around a place secretly or furtively |
| insufferable | not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable |
| persecuted | to pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment, especially because of religion, race, or beliefs; harass persistently |
| paranoia | unreasonable suspicion or distrust |
| dictatorship | a country, or the form of government which absolute power is exercised by one person |
| annihilate | to reduce to utter ruin or nonexistence; destroy utterly |
| disproportion | lack of proportion; lack of proper relationship in size, number, etc |
| correlate | to place in or bring into mutual or reciprocal relation; establish in orderly connection |
| resilient | springing back; rebounding |
| taloned | shaped like a claw, especially a bird of prey |
| undulate | to move with a sinuous wavelike motion; display a smooth rising-and-falling or side-to-side alternation of movement |
| locomotive | a self-propelled, vehicular engine, powered by steam, a diesel, or electricity, for pulling or, sometimes, pushing a train or individual railroad cars |
| subliminal | existing or operating below the threshold of consciousness; being or employing stimuli insufficiently intense to produce a discrete sensation but often being or designed to be intense enough to influence the mental processes or the behavior of the individual |
| embedded | to incorporate or contain as an essential part or characteristic |
| foreshadowing | the author's use of clues or hints at what might happen later in the story |
| symbol | anything that stands for or represents something else |
