Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

Rick R.
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  1. acclivity
    an upward slope or grade, as in a road
  2. adorn
    make more attractive, as by adding ornament or color
  3. archaic
    so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period
  4. ardent
    characterized by intense emotion
  5. chafe
    become or make sore by or as if by rubbing
  6. dictum
    an authoritative declaration
  7. diminuendo
    a gradual decrease in loudness
  8. efface
    remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
  9. embrasure
    an opening for firing through
  10. frock coat
    a man's coat having knee-length skirts front and back
  11. gesticulate
    show, express, or direct through movement
  12. idler
    person who does no work
  13. obsolete
    no longer in use
  14. oscillate
    move or swing from side to side regularly
  15. poignant
    keenly distressing to the mind or feelings
  16. preternatural
    existing outside of or not in accordance with nature
  17. roseate
    of something having a dusty purplish pink color
  18. sentinel
    a person employed to keep watch for some anticipated event
  19. vulgar
    of or associated with the great masses of people
  20. Secession
    the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War
  21. secessionist
    a person who wants to break free from a larger group
Created on Fri Nov 04 14:31:19 EDT 2011 (updated Sun Nov 06 23:26:12 EST 2011)

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