Collateral Damage - 2023-2024 Common Read - Braiding Sweetgrass

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Keywords

Absolution: the act of forgiving someone for having done something wrong or sinful (MW)

Altruism: unselfish regard for or devotion to the welfare of others (MW)
Circuitous: having a circular or winding course (MW)

Collateral: accompanying as secondary or subordinate (MW)

Evanescence (Evanescent): tending to vanish like vapor (MW)

Fecund: fruitful in offspring or vegetation (MW)

Herpetologist (Herpetology): a branch of zoology dealing with reptiles and amphibians (MW)

Ineffable: incapable of being expressed in words (MW)

Ordnance: military supplies including weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, and maintenance tools and equipment (MW)

Prodigious: extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree (MW)

Sinuous: of a serpentine or wavy form (MW)

Skein: a flock of wildfowl (such as geese or ducks) in flight (MW)

Sortie: one mission or attack by a single plane (MW)

Tussock: a compact tuft especially of grass or sedge (MW)

Vernal: of, relating to, or occurring in the spring (MW)

Xenophobia: fear and hatred of strangers or foreigners or of anything that is strange or foreign (MW)