The Yellow Birds Glossary

The Yellow Birds Glossary

Pioneer

A person who first discovers a new country or area, explore, founder, head, or a leader.

Exhaustion

Extremely tired, over tiredness, fatigue.

Deprivation

Poverty, hardship, neediness, taking away.

Preordain

Pre-planned, beforehand, predetermined.

Promenade

A stroll or a walk for pleasure in a public place or seafront.

Corrugate

Rigid, folded, crumpled, creased, to wrinkle, as the skin or face.

Catacombs

Tunnel, tomb, maze, or under ground cemetery.

Minaret

A slender tower attached to a mosque, with a balcony from which a muezzin call the people for prayer, cone, pyramid, needle.

Amphetamine

A drug used to cheer up a person's mood when someone is in depressive state and also used to control the appetite in case of obesity.

Predawn

Before dawn, sunrise, at first light, before day break.

Smolder

Bubble, smoke, steam, fume, burn without visible flame.

Disheveled

Untidy, jumbled, careless, disarranged, irregular.

Lubricant

Grease, oil, oily, an oil or grease, used for reducing the friction between the part of a machine.

Outskirt

Edge, outside, circumference, edge of town, limit, or margin.

Hyacinth

A light purplish blue flower of a Lilly family.

Hovel

Cabin, shed, lodge, shelter, cottage, house.

Correlation

Relationship, connection, similarity, link, linkage.

Jalopy

Automobile, buggy, vehicle, motorcar, ,wreck, an old automobile.

Chug

Down, gulp, choke down, inhale, drink.

Traverse

To climb and travel over, roam, wander, walk.

Cobblestone

Stone, rock, paving stone, concrete, gravel, crushed stone.

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