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Blizzard of Glass

Blizzard of Glass. VOCABULARY. Morgue. A place where the bodies of dead people are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy. Stevedore. Individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel. Tsunami. A great sea wave; tidal wave. Scaffold.

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Blizzard of Glass

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  1. Blizzard of Glass VOCABULARY

  2. Morgue • A place where the bodies of dead people are kept temporarily pending identification or release for burial or autopsy

  3. Stevedore • Individual engaged in the loading or unloading of a vessel

  4. Tsunami • A great sea wave; tidal wave

  5. Scaffold • Temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building

  6. Wafted • To float or be carried, especially through the air

  7. Coroner • Usually an elected public official whose principal duty is to inquire by an inquest into the cause of any death which is reason to suppose is not due to natural causes

  8. Smudgy • Smeared; smoky

  9. Recluse • One who withdraws from society; solitary

  10. Captivated • Irresistible appeal; to capture and hold the attention

  11. Sufficient • Adequate for the purpose; enough

  12. Flounder • To struggle to move or obtain footing; to proceed or act clumsily or ineffectually

  13. Hawser • A heavy rope for mooring or towing

  14. Seamstress • A woman whose occupation is sewing

  15. Maelstrom • A restless, disordered, or tumultuous state of affairs

  16. Moored • To secure (a ship, boat, dirigible, etc.) in a particular place, as by cables and anchors or by lines

  17. Millinery • Women’s apparel for the head; hatmaking

  18. Dismembered • To cut off or disjoin the limbs, members or parts of the body

  19. Munitions • Materials used in war, especially weapons and ammunition

  20. Diversity • Variety

  21. Stoke • To poke, stir up, and feed (a fire)

  22. Wharf • A structure built on the shore of or projecting into a harbor so that vessels may be moored alongside to load or unload or to lie at rest; pier

  23. Bustled • To move or act with a great show of energy

  24. Convoy • Accompany; to escort for protection

  25. Marred • To detract from the perfection of something; spoil; mark

  26. Hysteria • Behavior exhibiting overwhelming or unmanageable fear or emotional excess

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