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Mage
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Page 11- From the towns in its high valleys and the ports on its dark narrow bays many a Gontishman has gone forth to serve the Lords of the Archipelago in their cities as wizard or Mage, or, looking for adventure, to wander working magic from isle to isle of all Earthsea.
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| A magician, wizard or sorcerer. |
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Writhe (Writhing)
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Page 21- One Karg fell writhing with a spear, still warm from its forging, right through his body.
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| To move with a twisting or contorted motion. |
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Wraith
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Page 22- They gathered on the hill-side, and yet always there were wraiths and ghost-shapes among them, and other shapes that ran and stabbed from behind with a spear or knife and vanished again. |
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| An apparition in the exact likeness of a person, supposed to be seen before or soon after the person's death; in general, a visible spirit; a specter; a ghost. |
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Peril
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Page 43- Not for his passenger’s sake, but to save his ship from the peril of the storm. |
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| serious and immediate danger. |
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Scoff
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Page 49- Now it seemed to Ged, a mountain villager who had never been among the sons of rich merchants and noblemen, that this fellow was scoffing at him with his "service" and his "Sir" and his bowing and scraping.
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| To mock at or treat with derision |
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Jasper
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Page 49- I am called Jasper, Enwit's son of the Domain of Eolg on Havnor Isle. |
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| An opaque cryptocrystalline variety of quartz that may be red, yellow, or brown |
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Vetch
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Page 51- Jasper took Ged to sit with a heavyset fellow called Vetch, who said nothing much but shovelled in his food with a will. |
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| Any of various climbing plants of the genus Vicia having pinnately compound leaves that terminate in tendrils and small variously colored flowers; includes valuable forage and soil-building plants |
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Fey
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Page 69- . He kept up his foolishness for the laughter's sake, laughing with them, for after those two long nights of dance and moonlight and music and magery he was in a fey and wild mood, ready for whatever might come.
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Sunder(ed)
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The shapeless mass of darkness he had lifted split apart. It sundered, and a pale spindle of light gleamed between his opened arms, a faint oval reaching from the ground up to the height of his raised hands. |
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Fealty-
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Page 78- It was early spring when at last the Master released him, sending him first to offer his fealty to the Archmage Gensher. |
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