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• detention keeping someone in a police station/prison and not allowing them to leave
• day of reckoning judgement day, turning point
• fickle always changing your mind about who/what you like
• disguise oneself as modify one's appearance
• shed lose/drop something
• leap jump over
• turnstile narrow gate with metal bars that you push round to enter an area
• make it snappy do it quickly
• disobey not do what you are told
• scepter decorated rod carried by a king or queen
• pin attach
• fuzzy tightly curled
• ensemble set of clothes, outfit
• desirable wanted, desired
• heir someone who will receive money, property, a title or a duty when another person dies
• foresee predict, expect
• varnish liquid that gives a shiny protective surface
• stain spot, mark
• plain not attractive
• repatriate send someone back to their home country
• talkative chatty, talking a lot
• voucher ticket that can be used instead of money
• grace love and kindness
• prosperity wealth
• railing fence made from metal bars
• savage dated, offensive uncivilized person
• garment item of clothing
• pale whitish, not strong in colour
• tinned preserved in a can
• wing additional part of a building
• ravenous very hungry
• decline to refuse, decide not to
• rummage search for something
• giddy dizzy, light-headed
• indulgence pleasure
• tuck fold, gather
• breed type, sort
• threadbare worn and shabby
• implore beg, plead with
• possessions belongings, things you own
• defy refuse to obey, rebel against
• soothe calm, relax
• flicker shine, unsteadily
• entwined twisted together
• baked hot and dry
• adorn decorate
• intricate detailed, complex
• stifling very hot and difficult to breathe
• adobe building material made with sun-dried earth and straw
• remains parts of old buildings
• transient staying only for a short time
• squat occupy land or property illegal
• unbearable intolerable, horrible
• beat-up old and in bad condition
• stake out claim, mark out
• makeshift temporary, improvised
• disposal getting rid of something
• swig drink something in large mouthfulls
• lithe able to move easily and gracefully
• nestle lie comfortably close
• tattered old and torn
• shed small simple building
• punctuate occur regularly
• deceased dead
• inheritance money or property you receive from a person who has died
• ingenious very clever
• resilience ability to keep goin despite setbacks
• rife very common, widespread
• fill someone in on provide someone with facts
• prim behaving in a formal and correct way
• hassle cause someone problems
• reams large quantity
• jaded bored and tired
• anticipation expectation
• drifter person who doesn't stay in one place for long
• muse reflect, consider
• enlist join an army
• tender young
• lenient moderate, not severe
• imminent happening very soon
• provisions food and material necessities
• oppressively unpleasantly, harshly
• rapid quick
• in succesion in a row, one after the other
• endeavour try hard
• ordnance weapons and ammunition
• depot large buildings for storing things
• bolt lock
• dispatch message, report
• devoted dedicated, enthusiastic
• provided on condition that, only if
• converge meet, join
• consequential important
• exceed go beyond
• unblemished having no faults
• immaculate totally perfect
• coax gently push, urge
• hoarse rough and unclear
• keen intense, strong
• swiftness quickness, speed
• marvel be amazed
• shudder shake, tremble
• bound run or jump with large steps
• approbation approval, support
• infrequently rarely, not often
• heed notice, pay attention to
• readily willingly
• supple able to move and bend easily
• gust sudden rush of wind
• dip slope, hollow
• gratified pleased
• disastrous extremely bad
• the latter the second of two things mentioned
• hold court be the center of attention
• stoop bend forward and down
• crumpled crushed, creased
• immense great, huge
• render provide, give

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