"Your strange hunger for ease should not mean a death sentence for the rest of Creation." p. 359
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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)
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