Collection 6: Living Like Weasels

After seeing a weasel for the first time, Annie Dillard tries to put herself in the animal's mind - what would it be like to live by necessity, rather than by choice, as humans do?

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  1. carcass
    the dead body of an animal
  2. supposition
    a hypothesis that is taken for granted
  3. talon
    a sharp hooked claw especially on a bird of prey
  4. nonchalance
    the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care
  5. tremulous
    quivering as from weakness or fear
  6. ensconce
    fix firmly
  7. inexplicable
    incapable of being explained or accounted for
  8. dismantle
    take apart into its constituent pieces
  9. careen
    move sideways or in an unsteady way
  10. approach
    the event of one object coming closer to another
  11. avoidance
    the act of deliberately preventing or keeping away from
  12. conflict
    opposition between simultaneous but incompatible feelings
  13. ignoble
    dishonorable in character or purpose
  14. supple
    moving and bending with ease
  15. necessity
    anything indispensable
Created on Sat Jul 19 09:38:48 EDT 2014 (updated Wed Jul 30 15:58:08 EDT 2014)

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