What does "Say "I can" or say" I can't", and you're right either way." mean??

Abide

Define:  unceasing

Sentence:  And women there are who become sad when the word goes over the fire of how the Evil Spirit came to select that valley for an abiding-place.

Abroad

Define:  to or in a foreign country

Sentence:  There was life abroad in it different from the life which had been there throughout the summer.

Asunder

Define:  into parts or pieces

Sentence:  Life streamed through him in splendid flood, glad and rampant, until it seemed that it would burst him asunder in sheer ecstasy and put forth generously over the world.

Carnivorous

Define:  relating to flesh-eating animals

Sentence:

A carnivorous animal, living on a straight meat diet, he was in full flower, at the high tide of his life, over-spilling with vigor and virility.

Certitude  

Define:  complete assurance or confidence

Sentence:  He broke into the long easy lope, and went on, hour after hour, never at loss for the tangled way, heading straight home through strange country with a certitude of direction that put man and his magnetic needle to shame.

Cessation  

Define:   a stopping

Sentence:   Death, as a cessation of movement, as a passing out and away from the lives of the living, he knew, and he knew John Thornton was dead.

Desolate

Define:  providing no shelter or sustenance

Sentence:  As for Buck, wearying of the pursuit, he returned to the desolated camp.

Equilibrium

Define:  a stable situation in which forces cancel one another

Sentence:  Every part, brain and body, nerve tissue and fiber, was keyed to the most exquisite pitch; and between all the parts there was a perfect equilibrium or adjustment.

Fateful  

Define:   predetermined

Sentence:  It was a fateful day for the cats.

Frenzy

Define:  state of violent mental agitation

Sentence:  He followed, with wild leaping, in a frenzy to overtake.

Infinitesimal  

Define:   immeasurably small

Sentence:  In point of fact the three actions of perceiving, determining, and responding were sequential; but so infinitesimal were the intervals of time between them that they appeared simultaneous.

Intent

Define:  an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions

Sentence:  He would be lying in camp, dozing lazily in the heat of the day, when suddenly his head would lift and his ears went up, intent and listening, and he would spring to his feet and dash away, and on and on, for hours, through the forest aisles and across the open spaces where the loggerheads bunched.

Loot  

Define:  goods or money obtained illegally

Sentence:  But no living man had looted this treasure house, and the dead were dead; wherefore John Thornton and Pete and Hans, with Buck and half a dozen other dogs, faced into the East on an unknown trail to achieve where men and dogs as good as themselves had failed.

Obliterated

Define:  reduced to nothingness

Sentence:   And through another winter they wandered on the obliterated trails of men who had gone before.

Oppressed

Define:  burdened psychologically or mentally

Sentence:  He was oppressed with a sense of calamity happening, if it were not calamity already happened, and as he crossed the last watershed and dropped down into the valley toward camp, he proceeded with greater caution.

Prowess

Define:   a superior skill learned by study and practice

Sentence:  He was a killer, a thing that preyed, living on the things that lived, unaided, alone, by virtue of his own strength and prowess, surviving triumphantly in a hostile environment where only the strong survived.

Recurrent  

Define:   happening again and again

Sentence:  One night he sprang from sleep with a start, eager-eyed, nostrils quivering and scenting, his mane bristling in recurrent waves.

Rigorous  

Define:  rigidly accurate; allowing no deviation from a standard

Sentence:  As the fall of the year came on, the moose appeared in greater abundance, moving slowly down to meet the winter in the lower and less rigorous valleys.

Somber

Define:  grave or even gloomy in character

Sentence:   He made it clear to Buck that he was to come, and they ran side by side through the somber twilight, straight up the creek bed, into the gorge from which it issued, and across the bleak divide where it took its rise.

Subtle  

Define:  difficult to detect or grasp by the mind or analyze

Sentence: The news of it was borne in upon him, not by sight, or sound, or smell, but by some other and subtler sense.

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