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Itinerant - traveling from place to place.
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gazette - a journal or newspaper or person reporting news.
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erudition -
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shrewdness -
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credulity - a tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true.
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capacious - having a lot of space inside; roomy.
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wended -
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quartered – to be housed or stored in a certain place.
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whip-poor-will -
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harbinger - a person or thing that announces or signals the approach of something.
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varlet -
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give up the ghost
– to die; to stop working; to stop trying
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spinning - the action or process of converting fibers into thread or yarn.
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Hessian – A German soldier in any of the mercenary units of the British Army in the War of
American Independence or the Napoleonic Wars.
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anecdotes -
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prevailed - be widespread in a particular area at a particular time; be current.
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portentous - giving a sign or warning that something usually bad or unpleasant is going to happen.
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spectre - a ghost; phantom; apparition; a mental image of something unpleasant ruddy.
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subsequent -
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beset -
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wistful -
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appalled -
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uncouth -
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scourings -