Abide
Define: unceasing
Sentence: And women there are who become sad when the word goes over the fire of how the Evil Spirit came to select that valley for an abiding-place.
Abroad
Define: to or in a foreign country
Sentence: There was life abroad in it different from the life which had been there throughout the summer.
Asunder
Define: into parts or pieces
Sentence: Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and put forth generously over the world.
Carnivorous
Define: relating to flesh-eating animals
Sentence:
A carnivorous animal, living on a straight meat diet, he was in full flower, at the high tide of his life, over-spilling with vigor and virility.
Certitude
Define: complete assurance or confidence
Sentence: He broke into the long easy lope, and went on, hour after hour, never at loss for the tangled way, heading straight home through strange country with a certitude of direction that put man and his magnetic needle to shame.
Cessation
Define: a stopping
Sentence: Death, as a cessation of movement, as a passing out and away from the lives of the living, he knew, and he knew John Thornton was dead.
Desolate
Define: providing no shelter or sustenance
Sentence: As for Buck, wearying of the pursuit, he returned to the desolated camp.
Equilibrium
Define: a stable situation in which forces cancel one another
Sentence: Every part, brain and body, nerve tissue and fiber, was keyed to the most exquisite pitch; and between all the parts there was a perfect equilibrium or adjustment.
Fateful
Define: predetermined
Sentence: It was a fateful day for the cats.
Frenzy
Define: state of violent mental agitation
Sentence: He followed, with wild leaping, in a frenzy to overtake.
Infinitesimal
Define: immeasurably small
Sentence: In point of fact the three actions of perceiving, determining, and responding were sequential; but so infinitesimal were the intervals of time between them that they appeared simultaneous.
Intent
Define: an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
Sentence: He would be lying in camp, dozing lazily in the heat of the day, when suddenly his head would lift and his ears went up, intent and listening, and he would spring to his feet and dash away, and on and on, for hours, through the forest aisles and across the open spaces where the loggerheads bunched.
Loot
Define: goods or money obtained illegally
Sentence: But no living man had looted this treasure house, and the dead were dead; wherefore John Thornton and Pete and Hans, with Buck and half a dozen other dogs, faced into the East on an unknown trail to achieve where men and dogs as good as themselves had failed.
Obliterated
Define: reduced to nothingness
Sentence: And through another winter they wandered on the obliterated trails of men who had gone before.
Oppressed
Define: burdened psychologically or mentally
Sentence: He was oppressed with a sense of calamity happening, if it were not calamity already happened, and as he crossed the last watershed and dropped down into the valley toward camp, he proceeded with greater caution.
Prowess
Define: a superior skill learned by study and practice
Sentence: He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.
Recurrent
Define: happening again and again
Sentence: One night he sprang from sleep with a start, eager-eyed, nostrils quivering and scenting, his mane bristling in recurrent waves.
Rigorous
Define: rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard
Sentence: As the fall of the year came on, the moose appeared in greater abundance, moving slowly down to meet the winter in the lower and less rigorous valleys.
Somber
Define: grave or even gloomy in character
Sentence: He made it clear to Buck that he was to come, and they ran side by side through the somber twilight, straight up the creek bed, into the gorge from which it issued, and across the bleak divide where it took its rise.
Subtle
Define: difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze
Sentence: The news of it was borne in upon him, not by sight, or sound, or smell, but by some other and subtler sense.
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