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Read the following lines from "The Human Drift" and define the words in bold. Use context clues to determine the meanings.

1. These migratory movements of peoples have been called drifts, and the word is apposite.

2. Retreating before stronger breeds, hungry and voracious, the Eskimo has drifted to the
inhospitable polar regions.

3. Perhaps most amazing has been the South Sea Drift. Blind, fortuitous, precarious as no
other drift has been...

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