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    Work on vocabularyfor

    The Call of the Wild

    Jack London

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    Instructions

    Pick 2 words / 2 slides

    Give a short definition from a reputable dictionary

    Give one synonym

    Find an illustration

    Sign your slide (first name only) in the Commentary box

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    Carnivorous

    (of an animal) feeding on other animals.

    (of a plant) able to trap and digest small animals, especially

    insects.

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    Prostrate

    Definition:

    Lying face down, as in submission or adoration.

    Lying flat or at full length.

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    Prostrate

    Definition:

    Lying face down, as in submission or adoration.

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    Prostrate

    Lying streched out on the ground with one's

    face downwards.(Oxford Dct)

    reclining

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    Swarthy

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    Innocuous

    Not harmful, not offensive

    Syn. Harmless, safe, innocent

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    Retrogression

    To return to an earlier, inferior,or less complex condition.

    Synonyms:

    regress,retrograde,recidivate.

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    Manifest

    readily perceived by the eye orthe understanding, evident?

    Synoyms: attest, apparent,obvious.

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    Usurp

    Take (a position of power or importance) illegally or by force ( oxford dictionary )

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    Solidarity

    Unity or agreement of feeling or action, especially among individuals with acommon interest; mutual support within a group (oxford dictionary )

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    Indecisively

    Adj:

    Not able to make

    decisions quicklyand effectively

    Not settling an

    issue (Oxford

    dictionnary)

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    Salient

    Adj.:

    Most noticeable or important.

    (of an angle) pointing outwards

    (of an animal) standing on its hindlegs with forepaws raised as if

    leaping

    Noun:

    a piece of land or section of

    fortification that juts out to forman angle

    an outward bulge in a military line

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    Fastidious

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    Insidious

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    Treacherous

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    Primordial

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    Introspective

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    Rampant

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    Malingerer

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    Obdurate

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    Precipitated

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    Prostrate

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    Primeval

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    Despatches

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    To aver

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    Plainly

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    Discomfited

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    Gratifying

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    Inarticulate

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    Monosyllabic

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    Pell-Mell

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    To seize

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    Peremptorily

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    Pertinacity

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    Prowess

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    Superfluous