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 * by: Watkins and Whit**


 * Butte**-//noun-//A hill that rises abruptly from the surrounding area and has sloping sides and a flat top


 * Carrion**-//noun//-dead and putrefying flesh


 * Commissary**-//noun//-a deputy


 * Discretionary-**//adj//-having or using the ability to act or decide


 * Sardonic-**//adj//-characterized by bitter or scornful derision; mocking; cynical; sneering


 * Inexplicable**-//adj//-Difficult or impossible to explain or account for


 * Swath**-//noun//-a path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing)


 * Intone**-//verb//-to utter with a particular tone or voice modulation.


 * Gulley**-//noun//-a small valley or ravine originally worn away by running water and serving as a drainageway after prolonged heavy rains.


 * Glume**-//noun//-a large, long, or conspicuous feather


 * Dubious**-//adj//-of uncertain outcome


 * Furrowed**-//noun//-a rut, groove, or narrow depression


 * Allocated**-//verb//-to set apart from for a certain purpose


 * Mercurial**- //adj//-changeable


 * Fledge**-//verb//- to bring up a young bird until it is able to fly


 * Precocious**- //adj//-unusually advanced or mature in development


 * Cascading**-//noun//-a water fall descending over a steep


 * Innumerable**-//adj//- very numerous


 * Malice**-//verb//- desire to inflect injury


 * Gliding**-//verb//- to move continuously and smoothly along


 * Raptor**- //noun//-a raptorial bird


 * Confluence**-//noun//- a flowing together of two or more streams and rivers


 * Warily**- //adj//-in a wary manner


 * Incarcerated**-//verb//- to imprison


 * Kindled**-//verb//- to start a fire


 * Din**-//adj//- a loud, confused noise


 * Scarcely**-//adj//- barely


 * Cairn**-//noun//- a heap of stones set up as a landmark


 * Stealthily**- //adj//-acting by stealth


 * Inexplicable**-//adj//-not expectable


 * Abalone**- //noun//-sea snales


 * Monolith**-//noun//- a large statue


 * Accompanied**- //verb//-in company with


 * Equilibrium**-//verb//-a state of rest


 * Ruefully**-//verb//- causing sorrow or pity


 * Skittered**- //verb//-to move rapidly along a surface


 * Flanks**-//noun//- the section of flesh on the body of a person or an animal between the last rib and hip


 * Clambered**-adj- a difficult, awkward climb

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