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marketed always brought a dollar a peck, or four dollars a bushel. — Thirty
Years a Slave;
• (peckish) ( )
• (mint)- a place where coins, paper currency, special medals, etc., are
produced under government authority, ( );
• to make or fabricate; invent; to mint words;
• to turn (metal) into coins; to mint gold into sovereigns;
• (slew)- a large number or quantity; a whole slew of people;
• to kill by violence; to destroy, extinguish;
• to turn (a mast or other spar) around on its own axis, or without removing it
from its place, ( ); It slewed left and right with
sudden lurches that caused stomachs to drop and jaws to clench. — Ilse
Witch;
• (spate)- a sudden, almost overwhelming, outpouring, ( ,
); The voters refused to hold the ruling
dispensation solely responsible for the spate of terror attacks. — The Times of
India;
• (tidy)- fairly large; considerable, ( , , ); A tidy sum of
money;
• (stack)- a more or less orderly pile or heap, ( ); a precariously balanced
stack of books; a neat stack of papers;
• (raft)-a collection of logs, planks, casks, etc., fastened together for floating
on water, ( );
• a more or less rigid floating platform made of buoyant material or
materials, ( ); an inflatable rubber raft;
• (myriad)- a very great or indefinitely great number of persons or things,
( ; ); When they moved they were as a myriad-legged
creature, brain numbed, without any sensation except that of rapids going
over a fall. — The Last Shot;
• (pile)- an assemblage of things laid or lying one upon the other, (
); In the pile was a heavy wrench Tink scooped up the wrench,
whirled around and took a swing at his assailant. — 085 - The Spotted Men;
• (mass)- ( )
• (batch)- a group of persons or things;
• (deal)- (a good/ great deal) ( , , , ); Then, as he
admitted, he learnt a great deal from the Italians. — Purcell;
• (flock)- a number of animals of one kind, esp. sheep, goats, or birds, that