| alien |
someone who lives in a country who is not a citizen of that country. |
| balk |
to stop suddenly and refuse to go on. |
| clause |
a group of words that has a subject and a verb. Clauses can be part or all of a sentence. |
| entrust |
to hand over to for the care or protection of. |
| epidemic |
an outbreak of disease that spreads rapidly to many people in one area. |
| estate |
a piece of land with a large house on it. |
| indirect |
not in a straight line, course, or route. |
| levee |
an embankment built to keep river water from flooding the land. |
| medieval |
of, or having to do with the Middle Ages. |
| miserly |
stingy or penurious. |
| oversight |
a lack of paying attention to what one is doing. |
| quarry |
a large open hole or pit dug for mining stone, marble, gravel, or the like. |
| stability |
the condition or quality of being steady, fixed, or unchanging. |
| stance |
the opinions or attitude of someone with regard to something. |
| transcontinental |
going or reaching across a continent. |