Collection 6: The Hermit's Story

Two people travel beneath the frozen surface of a dry lake and see the world from an entirely different perspective in Rick Bass' collection of tales.

Make sure to check out these lists for texts in Grade 12's Collection 6: Living Like Weasels, poems about the seasons, Dwellings, The Hermit's Story
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  1. fabricate
    put together out of artificial or natural components
  2. tutelage
    teaching pupils individually
  3. chitin
    component of arthropods' exoskeletons and bodies of fungi
  4. tentatively
    in a hesitant manner
  5. subterranean
    being or operating under the surface of the earth
  6. immolate
    kill as a sacrifice, especially by fire
  7. opaque
    not transmitting or reflecting light or radiant energy
  8. gingerly
    with extreme care or delicacy
  9. luminous
    softly bright or radiant
  10. fraught
    filled with or attended with
  11. desolate
    providing no shelter or sustenance
  12. endurance
    a state of surviving; remaining alive
  13. insipid
    lacking interest or significance or impact
  14. circumscribe
    draw a line around
  15. happenstance
    an accidental event that seems to have been arranged
Created on Sat Jul 19 10:30:49 EDT 2014 (updated Wed Jul 30 15:54:14 EDT 2014)

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