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pg.194 "Suppose, Sam said slowly and deliberately, you two had to go to town."
In a careful and unhurried way.

Slowly and deliberately he rose from the armchair.

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p.190 "In the din of the accusations, a third man entered the kitchen."
The action or process of accusing someone.

I used an accusation against my sister for stealing my ring.

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pg.185 "Sam took a circuitous route through the woods to the county road."
(of a route or journey) longer than the most direct way.

The bus driver took a circuitous route.

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pg.176 "The day they succumbed to  starvation..."
Fail to resist (pressure, temptation, or some other negative force).

My dog succumbed to dehydration.

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pg.175 "It is own by the descendants of the Jon Burroughs family."
A person, plant, or animal that is descended from a particular ancestor.

Shakespeare's last direct descendant.

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pg.172 "All were in the umbra of magnificent hemlock."
The fully shaded inner region of a shadow cast by an opaque object, especially the area on the earth or moon experiencing the total phase of an eclipse.

The moon is shaded by the umbra.

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pg.171 "Frightful tore off a morsel and fed Oksi."
A small piece or amount of food; a mouthful.

I took a morsel of steak and ate it.

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pg.170 "Her feet gripped the dead limb more and more tightly."
Take and keep a firm hold of; grasp tightly.

My sister gripped on the handle bars.

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pg.168 "The ogre disappeared, and Oksi came to the edge of the box."
A cruel or terrifying person.
My sister thought there was a ogre in the closet.

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pg.166 "Frightful heard the feeble cry of her chick."
(of a sound) faint.

I heard the feeble yell of my sister when she was born.

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pg.164 "Sam got his falcons lure from the hemlock house."
Tempt (a person or an animal) to do something or to go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward.

My dad got his fishing lure from the store.

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pg.164 "Oksi could not see Frightful from inside the enclosure, and Frightful could not see Oksi from where she was sitting."
An area that is sealed off with an artificial or natural barrier.

I have to have enclosure with my ex-boyfriend.

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pg.159 "I also might be jailed for harboring an endangered species."
Keep (a thought or feeling, typically a negative one) in one's mind, especially secretly.

The man had a harboring feeling about taking the birds.

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pg.158 "He found Frightful's old hood and deftly put it over Oksi's head."
In a way that is neatly skillful and quick in movement.

The football player deftly moved.

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pg.156 "A boom of thunder as loud as a cannonade shook the bridge."
A period of continuous, heavy gunfire.

My dad was hunting and it was loud as a cannonade.

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pg.153 "They were in an old green Chevy pickup with an official insignia on the door."
A badge or distinguishing mark of military rank, office, or membership of an organization; an official emblem.

The guys who took two of Frightful babies had an insignia.

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pg.153 "Poachers---a special kind of poachers."
Illegally hunt or catch (game or fish) on land that is not one's own, or in contravention of official protection.
In Frightful's Mountain these two guys were poachers.

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pg.153 "426 yelled the distress over and over."
Extreme anxiety, sorrow, or pain.
I was distress from cramps.

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pg.151 "Sam was at his lean-to, his elbows propped on his knees, his binocs pinned on the green pickup."
Temporarily shelter.
Sam was using a lean-to for a temporarily shelter.