Call Of The Wild Chapter 3

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Articulate

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Endowed with the power of speech.

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the _____ travail of existence.

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Aurora borealis

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An aurora that occurs in northern regions of the earth. Also called northern lights.

With the __________ flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence.

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Dominant

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Exercising the most influence or control.

The _______ primordial beast was strong in Buck, and under the fierce conditions of trail life it grew and grew. Yet it was a secret growth.

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Dubiously

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Fraught with uncertainty or doubt; undecided.

The courier shook his head _______. With four hundred miles of trail still between him and Dawson, he could ill afford to have madness break out among his dogs.

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Ecstasy

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Intense joy or delight.

There is an ______that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ______comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive.

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Inexorable

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Not capable of being persuaded by entreaty; relentless:

There was no hope for him. Buck was ________. Mercy was a thing reserved for gentler climes. He maneuvered for the final rush. The circle had tightened till he could feel the breaths of the huskies on his flanks.

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Insidious

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Working or spreading harmfully in a subtle or stealthy manner:

The ______ revolt led by Buck had destroyed the solidarity of the team. It no longer was as one dog leaping in the traces.

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Loath

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Unwilling or reluctant; disinclined

Close in under the sheltering rock Buck made his nest. So snug and warm was it, that he was ______to leave it when Francois distributed the fish which he had first thawed over the fire.

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Nocturnal

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Of, relating to, or occurring in the night

Here and there Buck met Southland dogs, but in the main they were the wild wolf husky breed. Every night, regularly, at nine, at twelve, and three, they lifted a _______ song, a weird and eerie chant, in which it was Buck's delight to join.

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Pandemonium

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A very noisy place

An oath from Perrault, the resounding impact of a club upon a bony frame, and a shrill yelp of pain, heralded the breaking forth of __________. the camp was suddenly discovered to be alive with skulking furry forms--starving huskies, four or five score of them, who had scented the camp from some Indian village.

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Plaint

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A complaint.

It was an old song, old as the breed itself--one of the first songs of the younger world in a day when songs were sad. It was invested with the woe of unnumbered generations, this ______ by which Buck was so strangely stirred.

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Precipitate

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To throw from or as if from a great height; hurl downward

He worked faithfully in the harness, for the toil had become a delight to him; yet it was a greater delight slyly to ________ a fight amongst his mates and tangle the traces.

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Prostrate

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To put or throw flat with the face down, as in submission or adoration

This failed to drive Buck from his __________ rival, and the butt of the whip was brought into play. Half-stunned by the blow, Buck was knocked backward and the lash laid upon him again and again, while Spitz soundly punished the many times offending Pike.

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Rend

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To tear or split apart or into pieces violently.

In passion to _____ and destroy, he never forgot that his enemy was in like passion to _______and destroy.

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Travail

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Work, especially when arduous or involving painful effort; toil.

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its pall of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate _____of existence.

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Wraith

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An apparition of a living person that appears as a portent just before that person's death.

He lay down low to the race, whining eagerly, his splendid body flashing forward, leap by leap, in the wan white moonlight. And leap by leap, like some pale frost _______, the snowshoe rabbit flashed on ahead.

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Apprehension

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Fearful or uneasy anticipation of the future; dread.

He kept Francois busy, for the dog-driver was in constant _________ of the life-and-death struggle between the two which he knew must take place sooner or later; and on more than one night the sounds of quarreling and strife among the other dogs turned him out of his sleeping robe, fearful that Buck and Spitz were at it.

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Daunted

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To abate the courage of; discourage

Nothing ______him. It was because nothing ______him that he had been chosen for government courier

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Pall

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A covering that darkens or obscures

With the aurora borealis flaming coldly overhead, or the stars leaping in the frost dance, and the land numb and frozen under its _______of snow, this song of the huskies might have been the defiance of life, only it was pitched in minor key, with long-drawn wailings and half-sobs, and was more the pleading of life, the articulate travail of existence.

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Vexation

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The act of annoying, irritating, or vexing.

They made Sixty Mile, which is a fifty-mile run, on the first day; and the second day saw them booming up the Yukon well on their way to Pelly. But such splendid running was achieved not without great trouble and _______ on the part of Francois.

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Bedlam

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A place or situation of noisy uproar and confusion.

The breaking down of discipline likewise affected the dogs in their relations with one another. They quarreled and bickered more than ever among themselves, till at times the camp was a howling ______.