Vocab 1
its original condition; unspoiled.
What is pristine?
a loose sleeveless cloak or shawl, worn especially by women
What is a mantle?
bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy.
What is sullen?
a disagreement between people.
What is a discord?
The name of Balboa's dog.
Who is Leoncico?
a hard gray rock consisting of nearly pure chert, occurring chiefly as nodules in chalk
What is flint?
the indiscriminate and brutal slaughter of people.
What is a massacre?
the action of providing or supplying something for use
What are provisions?
a difference or contrast between similar things or people
What is a distinction?
Saw Balboa's dogs as demons and cursed Balboa.
What is a monk?
a natural desire to satisfy a bodily need, especially for food
What is an appetite?
having been cut or sliced off
What is severed?
cautious and surreptitious action or movement
What is stealth?
take (food, drink, or another substance) into the body by swallowing or absorbing it
What is ingesting?
Balboa's starting occupation.
What is a pig farmer?
being the first or earliest of the kind or in existence, especially in an early age of the world
What is primitive?
What are incisors?
What are mastiffs?
give up (power or territory).
What is a cession? (ceded)
The animal Balboa would consider himself.
What is a Lion?
What is a conquistador?
supersede and replace
What is being supplanted?
lower one's body briefly by bending one knee to the ground, typically in worship, or as a sign of respect
What is genuflecting?
having or showing a wish to do evil to others
What is performing malevolent actions?
an interjected scene that takes the narrative back in time from the current point in the story
What is a flashback?