Farewell to Arms Vocab. (Chs. 1-21)
Farewell to Arms
Vocabulary List
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- Orchards: an area of land on which fruit or nut trees are grown, especially commercially
- Artillery: catapults and other large mechanical weapons once used by armies
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- Bulged: to contain so much that the sides expand outward
- Cholera: an acute and often fatal intestinal disease that produces severe gastrointestinal symptoms and is usually caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae
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- Plateau: an area of high ground with a fairly level surface
- Walled: a narrow upright structure, usually built of stone, wood, plaster, or brick, that acts as a boundary or keeps something in or out
- Bombard: to attack an enemy or enemy territory intensively with sustained artillery fire or bombs
- Bawdy: ribald in a frank, humorous, and often crude way
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- Avenue: a wide street or road in a town
- Tuft: a small bunch of hair, grass, feathers, or fibers held or growing together at the base (goat’s beard)
- Interiors: the inside of a building or room considered especially with regard to its decoration and furnishing
- Shelling: an explosive projectile fired from a large-bore gun such as a field gun or tank gun
- Stumps: the part of something such as a limb or a tree that is left after the main part has been removed
- Latrines: a toilet, especially a communal one on a military base
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- Flask: a small thin flat container with a narrow neck, carried in a pocket and usually used to hold liquor
- Tannic: relating to, containing, or derived from tannin
- Tunic: a close-fitting high-collared jacket worn as part of a police or military uniform
- Pidgin: a simplified language made up of parts of two or more languages, used as a communication tool between speakers whose native languages are different
- Baiting: something used to lure a person or animal into being caught
-Atheist: somebody who does not believe in God or deities
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- Soto-tenente: the thumb
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Vocabulary List
Page 3
- Orchards: an area of land on which fruit or nut trees are grown, especially commercially
- Artillery: catapults and other large mechanical weapons once used by armies
Page 4
- Bulged: to contain so much that the sides expand outward
- Cholera: an acute and often fatal intestinal disease that produces severe gastrointestinal symptoms and is usually caused by the bacterium Vibrio cholerae
Page 5
- Plateau: an area of high ground with a fairly level surface
- Walled: a narrow upright structure, usually built of stone, wood, plaster, or brick, that acts as a boundary or keeps something in or out
- Bombard: to attack an enemy or enemy territory intensively with sustained artillery fire or bombs
- Bawdy: ribald in a frank, humorous, and often crude way
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- Avenue: a wide street or road in a town
- Tuft: a small bunch of hair, grass, feathers, or fibers held or growing together at the base (goat’s beard)
- Interiors: the inside of a building or room considered especially with regard to its decoration and furnishing
- Shelling: an explosive projectile fired from a large-bore gun such as a field gun or tank gun
- Stumps: the part of something such as a limb or a tree that is left after the main part has been removed
- Latrines: a toilet, especially a communal one on a military base
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- Flask: a small thin flat container with a narrow neck, carried in a pocket and usually used to hold liquor
- Tannic: relating to, containing, or derived from tannin
- Tunic: a close-fitting high-collared jacket worn as part of a police or military uniform
- Pidgin: a simplified language made up of parts of two or more languages, used as a communication tool between speakers whose native languages are different
- Baiting: something used to lure a person or animal into being caught
-Atheist: somebody who does not believe in God or deities
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- Soto-tenente: the thumb
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