Grade 9 vocab
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- Imprudent
- lacking wise self-restraint
- Cantonment
- temporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers
- Chough
- a European corvine bird of small or medium size with red legs and glossy black plumage
- Staccato
- marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds
- knouter
- person who beast criminals with a knout - leather whip
- Tunic
- A loose garment
- Palatial
- suitable for or like a palace
- Flay
- Strip of fur, strip the skin off
- Droll
- comical in an odd or whimsical manner
- Ennui
- listlessness and dissatisfaction resulting from lack of interest; the feeling of being bored by something tedious
- Fortified
- having something added to increase the strength
- Gorge
- a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it)
- Beech
- wood of any of various beech trees
- Resolute
- firm determination
- Escarpment
- a long steep slope or cliff at the edge of a plateau or ridge
- Solicitous
- full of anxiety and concern
- Debacle
- a sudden and violent collapse
- Nomad
- a member of a people who have no permanent home but move about according to the seasons
- Intricacies
- elements that make up or cause something to be difficult or complex.
- Indolent
- Causing little or no pain