This document contains definitions of various words: coveted means to desire wrongfully something that belongs to others; celerity means swiftness or great speed; obdurate means stubborn and unyielding; deluged means a great flood or inundation; solidarity means unity based on shared interests and objectives; barrack means a building for housing soldiers; monotonous means lacking variety and tediously unvarying; remnant means a remaining small part or quantity; potent means powerful; perpetual means continuing forever; fivescore means one hundred; resiliency means the ability to return to the original form; floundered means to struggle with stumbling movements; morose means gloomily ill-humored; perplexed means

1. Coveted
(adj.) to desire wrongfully, or without due
regard to the rights of others
“…not noticing him, brought Sol-leks to
the coveted position.”
This girl is looking down through her window
at the kids below that are playing. She wishes
she was down with them. She even wants to
kill one of them and take their place.

2. Celerity
noun: swiftness, moving with great amounts of
speed
“At the Rink Rapids two native huskies, Teek
and Koona, were added; and the celerity with
which Buck broke them in took away
Francois's breath.”
The bullet train is one
of the fastest trains in
the world.

3. Obdurate
(Adjective) Unmoved by persuasion, pity,
or tender feelings; stubborn; unyielding.
“Francois was obdurate, but when he turned his back,
Buck again displaced Sol-leks, who was not at all
unwilling to go.”

4. Deluged
(Noun) A great flood; inundation
“For three days Perrault and Francois threw chests up
and down the main street of Skaguay and were deluged
with invitations to drink…..”

5. Solidarity
(noun) unity (as of a group or class) that
produces or is based on community of
interests, objectives, and standards
“It recovered its old-time solidarity, and once more the
dogs leaped as one dog in the traces.”

6. Barrack
(noun) a building or set of buildings used
especially for lodging soldiers in garrison
“But in two days' time they dropped down the Yukon
bank from the barracks, loaded with letters for the
outside.”

7. Monotonous
Adj. lacking in variety; tediously
unvarying.
“It was a monotonous life, operating with machine-
like regularity....”

8. Remnant
Noun- a remaining, usually small part,
quantity, number, or the like.
“With the last remnant of his strength he managed to
stagger along behind till the train ...”

9. Potent
(adj.) powerful; mighty
“Far more potent were the memories of his
heredity that gave things he had never seen
before a seeming familiarity”

10. Perpetual
(adj.) Continuing or enduring forever;
everlasting.
“almost catlike, and a quick alertness as of
one who lived in perpetual fear of things
seen and unseen.”

11. Fivescore
(noun) a group or a set of one
hundred
“To them, this was the one feature… after
the fish was eaten… of which there were
fivescore and odd.”

12. Resiliency
(noun) the ability to return to the
original form, position
“About his body there was a peculiar springiness, or resiliency,
almost catlike, and a quick alertness as of one who lived in
perpetual fear of things seen and unseen.’’

13. Floundered
(adj.) to struggle with stumbling or
plunging movements
“When the sled started, he
floundered in the soft snow
alongside the beaten trail…”

14. Morose
(adj.) gloomily or sullenly ill-
humored, as a person or mood.
“He became more morose and
irritable…”

15. Perplexed
adjective bewildered; puzzled: a perplexed state of mind.
“The driver was perplexed. His comrades talked of how a
dog could break its heart through being denied the work
that killed it, and recalled instances they had known,
where dogs, too old for the toil, or injured, had died
because they were cut out of the traces.”

16. Convulsive
adjective: producing or accompanied by spasms:
convulsive rage.
“At harness-up time he tried to crawl to his driver. By
convulsive efforts he got on his feet, staggered, and
fell. Then he wormed his way forward slowly toward
where the harnesses were being put on his mates.”

17. Consultation
Noun. A conference between two or more
people to consider a particular question.
“… and one night they held a consultation.”