The Pedestrian Vocabulary

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buckling

• dark and quiet; deserted

• covered with a reddish-brown coating

• bright or hot as fire

• bending; crumpling

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tomblike

• dark and quiet; deserted

• appearing or occurring from time to time

• lessening or weakening

• bright or hot as fire

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rusty

• bending; crumpling

• covered with a reddish-brown

• bare-boned; resembling a skeleton

• like or suggesting metal

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skeletal

• moving backward; returning to an earlier or less-advanced condition

• appearing or occurring from time to time

• bare-boned; resembling a skeleton

• bright or hot as fire

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fiery

• dark and quiet; deserted

• substance used to sterilize or prevent infection

• lessening or weakening 

• bright or hot as fire

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intermittent

• dark and quiet; deserted

• bending; crumpling

• appearing or occurring from time to time

• lessening or weakening

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regressive

• like or suggesting metal

• substance used to sterilize or prevent infection

• appearing or occurring from time to time

• moving backward; returning to an earlier condition

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metallic

• bare-boned; resembling a skeleton

• substance used to sterilize or prevent infection

• like or suggesting metal

• lessening or weakening

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antiseptic

• covered in a reddish-brown coating

• substance used to sterilize or prevent infection

• appearing or occurring from time to time

• lessening or weakening

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ebbing

• lessening or weakening

• appear; become evident

• moving backward; returning to an earlier condition

• appearing or occurring from time to time

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manifest

• lessening or weakening

• appear; become evident

• moving backward; returning to an earlier condition

• appearing or occurring from time to time