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  1. chortle
    a soft partly suppressed laugh
    Anvil chortled.
  2. fee simple
    a fee without limitation to any class of heirs
    “The tree is yours in fee simple to bargain, sell, and convey or to keep and nurture and eventually hand down to your heirs or assigns forever unto eternity.
  3. falsetto
    a male singing voice with artificially high tones
    “‘Father’” Anvil said with falsetto mimicry.
  4. demented
    affected with madness or insanity
    As I looked at Anvil I felt that in the background I was seeing that demented, bitter father trudging his lonely, vicious way through the world.
  5. mimicry
    imitative behavior
    “‘Father’” Anvil said with falsetto mimicry.
  6. nurture
    provide with nourishment
    “The tree is yours in fee simple to bargain, sell, and convey or to keep and nurture and eventually hand down to your heirs or assigns forever unto eternity.
  7. itinerant
    traveling from place to place to work
    He was a dirty, half crazy, itinerant knickknack peddler.
  8. inadvertently
    without knowledge or intention
    He simply painted the big white circle on the barn floor, had the fork hauled back up to the top, and fastened the trigger around the rung of a stationary ladder eight feet off the floor, where no one could inadvertently pull it.
  9. chaff
    material consisting of seed coverings and pieces of stem
    “That’s no fun,” I said, getting up and brushing the chaff from my face and hair.
  10. vindictive
    disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge
    “Five, ten, fifteen—” I gave Anvil one last vindictive look and sprang up the stationary ladder and swung out on the trip rope of the unpredictable hayfork with all my puny might.
  11. sullen
    showing a brooding ill humor
    After a few sullen, bewildered moments he reached into his shirt and began hauling out my apples one by one.
Created on Mon Mar 18 16:43:41 EDT 2013

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