Sam Melo
Bosch
Honors 10 English
3 January 2009
1. Prostrate
To lay flat. As on the ground; to cast down, as oneself in humility or adoration; to overthrow, overcome, or reduce to physical weakness or exhaustion: to be prostrated by disease
2. Interlude
An interval; a temporary pause of lull during some other activity; an intervening episode or period.
3. Reprieve
The suspension of the execution of a sentence; a warrant of authorization for this; respite; temporary ease or relief
4. Rations
A daily allowance of provisions to soldiers and sailors: any fixed amount or quantity allotted; a share or portion
5. Dysentery
An infectious disease characterized by inflammation of the bowels, with diarrhea
6. Robust
Possessed of or indicating great strength or health; strong or enduring; vigorous; rude, rough, or boisterous; strong or full flavored, as coffee.
7. Quarantine
A detention or isolation to prevent the spread of disease; a place of confinement or isolation; a system of measures, as for observation or disinfection, maintained by governmental or public authority at ports of frontiers thus preventing the spread of disease
8. Apathy
Lack of feeling or excitement; indifference
9. Humane
Kind; benevolent; tender; merciful; tending to civilize or refine
10. Grimace
A facial distortion expressing scorn, pain, disgust, affection, disapproval, or other emotion; a smirk; a wry face
11. Nocturnal
Pertaining or belonging to the night; done or occurring at night
12. Livid
Black and blue, as bruised flesh; of a lead or ashen color, as the face; discolored by contusion, as flesh
13. Pious
Having or showing a dutiful spirit of reverence for God or an earnest regard for religious obligations; devout; religious; godly; practiced or used from religious motives, real or pretended, or for some good object
14. Interminable
Boundless; unending; wearisomely prolonged
15. Wizened
Dried out and shriveled; withered; shrunken
16. Morale
Mental attitude, as of soldiers expressing courage, zeal, hope, or confidence
17. Infernal
Hellish; fiendish; diabolical
18. Refuge
Shelter or protection from danger or distress; any safe place or asylum
19. Oppressive
Unreasonably burdensome; unjustly severe; given to oppression; tyrannical; overpowering; overwhelming
20. Expelled
To drive or force out or away; to cut off from membership; to expel a student