VOCABULARY LIST

Deputation - delegation; the small group of men that approach the Martians with a white flag

Ululation - howl, wail

Kopjes - a small hill

Hamstringing - to make ineffective or powerless, cripple

Impetus - driving force, stimulus

Integument - skin, membrane, husk

Actuate - to move to action

Vitiated - to make faulty or defective

Efficacious - having the power to produce a desired effect

Navvies - an unskilled laborer, as on canals, roads, etc.

Fecundity - prolific, fertile

Languid - slow, without vigor or vitality

Precipitately - acting with haste

Putrefactive - decomposition resulting in foul smell

Sidereal - stellar, relating to the stars or constellations

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