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1. breastwork (noun):
a defensive work, usually chest-high
“Corporals and other representatives of the grimy and hot-throated men who lined the breastwork had come for each squad's portion.” (Paragraph 1)
2. thronging (present progressive verb):
crowding
3. reap (verb):
to gather or take
“He was on the verge of a great triumph in mathematics, and the corporals were thronging forward, each to reap a little square, when suddenly the lieutenant cried out and looked quickly at a man near him as if he suspected it was a case of personal assault.” (Paragraph 2)
4. compelled (past participle):
forced; driven; brought about by force
5. stupefaction (noun):
overwhelming amazement
6. trident (noun):
a three-pronged weapon
“In short, this weapon had of a sudden become a strange thing to him. He looked at it in a kind of stupefaction, as if he had been endowed with a trident, a sceptre, or a spade.
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By Stephen Crane