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Scott Foresman Reading Vocabulary Unit 5
The Three-Century Women
Humorous Nonfiction
| eerie | causing fear because of strangeness or weirdness |
| intersection | point, line, or place where one thing crosses another |
| pondered | considered carefully; thought over |
| severe | serious; grave |
| spectacles | eyeglasses |
| withered | mad dry and lifeless; dried up; faded; shriveled |