Time Machine Chapter 10

Sue H.
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  1. malign
    speak unfavorably about
  2. incomprehensible
    difficult to understand
  3. interval
    the distance between things
  4. villainy
    the quality of evil due to wicked behavior
  5. hypothesis
    a tentative insight that is not yet verified or tested
  6. sufferance
    patient endurance especially of pain or distress
  7. subterranean
    being or operating under the surface of the earth
  8. prime
    of or relating to the first or originating agent
  9. practicable
    capable of being done with means at hand
  10. dexterous
    skillful in physical movements; especially of the hands
  11. pinnacle
    a slender upright spire at the top of a buttress or a tower
  12. eccentric
    conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual
  13. withered
    lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
  14. contrived
    showing effects of planning or manipulation
  15. refuge
    something or someone turned to for assistance or security
  16. darkling
    uncannily or threateningly dark or obscure
  17. preternaturally
    in a supernatural manner
  18. acacia
    any of various spiny trees or shrubs
  19. imperceptible
    impossible or difficult to sense
  20. scintillating
    having brief brilliant points or flashes of light
  21. dwarf
    a person who is markedly small
  22. gravity
    the force of attraction between all masses in the universe
  23. terrestrial
    of or relating to or characteristic of the planet Earth
  24. unfathomable
    impossible to come to understand
  25. precession
    the act of preceding in time or order or rank
  26. aspiration
    a cherished desire
  27. frail
    physically weak
  28. while away
    spend or pass, as with boredom or in a pleasant manner
  29. discriminating
    showing or indicating careful judgment and discernment
  30. rigorous
    strict; allowing no deviation from a standard
  31. wretched
    deserving or inciting pity
  32. degradation
    a change to a lower state
  33. vestige
    an indication that something has been present
Created on Wed Feb 06 01:47:54 EST 2013 (updated Wed Feb 06 01:50:26 EST 2013)

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