Unit 2: Selection Vocabulary 3

This list covers "The Highwayman" and Flesh & Blood So Cheap.
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  1. torrent
    an overwhelming number or amount
    The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees.
  2. clatter
    make a rattling sound
    Over the cobbles he clattered and clashed in the dark inn-yard.
  3. tawny
    having the color of tanned leather
    And out of the tawny sunset, before the rise of the moon,
    When the road was a gypsy’s ribbon, looping the purple moor,
    A red-coat troop came marching—
  4. strive
    attempt by employing effort
    She would not risk their hearing; she would not strive again
  5. brandish
    exhibit aggressively
    Back, he spurred like a madman, shrieking a curse to the sky,
    With the white road smoking behind him and his rapier brandished high.
  6. ignite
    cause to start burning
    Flames shot up, igniting the line of hanging paper patterns.
  7. standpipe
    a vertical pipe
    The hose had not been connected to the standpipe.
  8. suffocate
    deprive of oxygen and prevent from breathing
    Heat can easily damage their machinery, leaving trapped passengers dangling in space, to burn or suffocate.
  9. inferno
    a very intense and uncontrolled fire
    Reaching the eighth floor, they crawled into the inferno on their bellies, under the rising smoke, with their hose.
  10. aerial
    existing, living, growing, or operating in the air
    The aerial ladders failed, too, reaching only to the sixth floor.
  11. desperate
    dangerously reckless or violent as from urgency or dismay
    Desperate jumpers tried to grab hold of a rung on the way down, missed, and landed on the sidewalk.
Created on Tue Nov 10 11:15:22 EST 2020 (updated Tue Nov 17 12:01:36 EST 2020)

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