Module 3: "Determining Word Meaning and How Ideas Are Developed"

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  1. hasten
    move fast
    I gave them food, and hastened to the Park through the gathering twilight.
  2. immense
    unusually great in size or amount or extent or scope
    The immense fires started by the earthquake now made such a ruddy glow that it was easy to see everything, although the flames were two miles away.
  3. ruddy
    of the color between orange and purple in the color spectrum
    The immense fires started by the earthquake now made such a ruddy glow that it was easy to see everything, although the flames were two miles away.
  4. incessant
    uninterrupted in time and indefinitely long continuing
    No lights were allowed in the Park, and all was soon quiet except the wail of a baby, the clang of an ambulance, and the incessant roll of wheels and tramp of feet as the people constantly sought refuge.
  5. tramp
    a heavy footfall
    No lights were allowed in the Park, and all was soon quiet except the wail of a baby, the clang of an ambulance, and the incessant roll of wheels and tramp of feet as the people constantly sought refuge.
  6. refuge
    a shelter from danger or hardship
    No lights were allowed in the Park, and all was soon quiet except the wail of a baby, the clang of an ambulance, and the incessant roll of wheels and tramp of feet as the people constantly sought refuge.
  7. shrubbery
    a collection of shrubs growing together
    People were all about us in huddled groups, sleeping the sleep of exhaustion on the lawns and under the shrubbery.
  8. stricken
    affected by something overwhelming
    Late in the night I heard a cry, “Bakers wanted! Bakers wanted!” over and over—the first cry of a stricken people for bread.
  9. plight
    a situation from which extrication is difficult
    Later came another through the silent night—“Union telegraphers wanted”—to tell the world our awful plight.
  10. detail
    assign to a specific task
    Morning came, and my husband was detailed to take charge of the water distribution at the entrance to the Park.
  11. famished
    extremely hungry
    “Just one cupful. It only takes a moment, and she's almost famished.”
  12. faucet
    a regulator for controlling the flow of a liquid
    And the man went to the foot of the line, and it was just an hour and a half before he came to the faucet for his pitcherfull.
Created on Wed Sep 30 09:16:38 EDT 2020 (updated Thu Oct 01 16:16:26 EDT 2020)

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