English Mice and Men

• Gutter is a street grate.
• Pantomime is to communicate without sound.
• Quiver is a gentle shaking or movement.
• Hoosegow is jail (archaic).
• Euthanasia is the ending of life in the effort to prevent suffering.
• Cultivator is a farm machine used for turning the soil.
• Morose is glooming or sulling.
• Bucking is working hard.
• Gnaw is to scrape or chew with the front teeth.
• Heron is a long-legged water bird.
• Liniment is ointment or balm.
• Juncture is placed when separate sections meet.
• Solitaire is a card game played by one person.
• Ticking is a cloth mattress covering.
• Vial is a small bottle for medicine.
• Receptive is willing.
• Burlap is a rough inexpensive cloth.
• Debris is the remains of dead or destroyed things.
• Anguish is an emotional pain
• Gingerly is delicately with great care.
• Discrimination is to limit or deny opportunity for any reason other than personal qualification.
• Scourge is an enemy or pest.
• Emerge is to come out.
• Apprehensive is cautious.
• Contempt is without respect.
• Despair is without hope.
• Stable is a building for animals.
• Thresh is to separate good from bad.
• Imperious is arrogant or commanding.
• Bindle is a blanket roll.
• Euchre is a card game played by two.
• Contemplate is to consider carefully.
• Rapet is very attentive.
• Ominous is with a sense of danger.
• Basin is a shallow bowl.
• Recumbent is to lie horizontally.
• Pugnacious is always looking for a fight.
• Rheumatism is a sickness of the muscles and joints.
• Disengage is to exit or break away from.
• Alfalfa is a stiff grass used as animal feeds.