Unit 5: Novel Study: Refugee, Pages 171–338

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  1. confer
    have a meeting in order to talk something over
  2. recoil
    draw back, as with fear or pain
  3. condemn
    pronounce a punishment, as in a court of law
  4. flotilla
    a fleet of small craft
  5. stagnant
    not circulating or flowing
  6. purser
    an officer aboard a ship who keeps accounts and attends to the passengers' welfare
  7. perpetual
    continuing forever or indefinitely
  8. oblivious
    lacking conscious awareness of
  9. mutineer
    someone who rebels against an authority
  10. helmsman
    the person who steers a ship
  11. resolve
    the trait of being firm in purpose or belief
  12. cauldron
    a very large pot that is used for boiling
  13. tendril
    something long, light, slender, and often curling
  14. odyssey
    a long wandering and eventful journey
  15. coda
    the closing section of a musical composition
  16. retroactive
    having an effect on events that occurred previously
  17. embargo
    a government order imposing a trade barrier
  18. influx
    the process of flowing in
  19. plot
    a secret scheme to do something
  20. normalize
    cause to conform to a standard
  21. composite
    consisting of separate interconnected parts
Created on Fri Nov 13 12:04:55 EST 2020 (updated Tue Feb 02 10:36:39 EST 2021)

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