vocabulary from the book The Things They Carry
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| 156130603 | intangible | not tangible; inacapable of being perceived by the sense of touch, as incorporeal or immaterial things; impallable | |
| 156130604 | tangible | capable of being touched; discernible by the touch; material or substantial | |
| 156130605 | burden | that which is carried; load | |
| 156130606 | disposable | designed for or capable of being thrown away after being used or used up | |
| 156130607 | caliber | the diameter of the barrel of a gun taken as a unit of measurement | |
| 156130608 | abstract | though of apart from concrete realities, specific objects, or actual instances | |
| 156130609 | endure | to bear without resistance or with patience; tolerate | |
| 156130610 | discard | to cast aside or dispose of; get rid of | |
| 156130611 | survival | the act or fact of surviving, especially under adverse or unusual circumstances | |
| 156130612 | memory | the mental capacity or faculty of retaining and reviving facts, events, impressions, etc., or of recalling or recognizing previous experiences | |
| 156130613 | swamp | a tract of wet, spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation, but unfit for cultivation | |
| 156130614 | compass | an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicated magnetic north | |
| 156130615 | essential | absolutely necessary; indispensable | |
| 156130616 | terror | intense, sharp, overmastering fear | |
| 156130617 | passage | the route or course by which a person of thing passes or travels |
