ENG-3 Moerbe 6WKSTEST
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- biting, chewing on, or eating away at; bothering or afflicting repeatedly
- gnawing
- low lying land next to where a river overflows
-
bottoms
-
a flexible stick,twig, or the like, especially one used for whipping - switch
- a railroad station; a terminal for passengers, freight, or storing goods
-
depot
- trembling or shaking
- quavering
- questioning
- querying
- thickness or width; the length of a straight line that passes through the center of a circle
-
diameter
- a shade tree with broad leaves similar to those of a maple
- sycamore
- bawling, crying, wailing
- squalling
- hydrogen peroxide, a compound used as an antiseptic
-
peroxide
- sweet corn as opposed to feed corn
- roasting ears
- thrown away
- discarded
- infected or inflamed
- festered
- the eggs of a small fowl (bantum)
- banty eggs
- leaf-eating beetle that flies in late spring
- June bug
- sticking out; projecting
- protruding
- causing one to feel the need to vomit
- nauseating
- chosen, appointed
- designated
- balm, cream, ointment
- salve
- calmly or casually
- nonchalantly
- white solid rendered fat of a hog
- lard
- balance, power, or advantage
- leverage
- to wear out or exhaust
-
frazzle
- an easy, steady walk or run
- lope
- covered or sunken
- submerged
- collapsed by releasing gas or air
- deflated
- a heavy block of iron or steel with a smooth flat top on which metal is hammered for shaping
- anvil
- reparation or payment to make up for an insult or injury
- amends
- a tall thicket of reeds that are hollow, slender, and flexible
- canebrake
- tight rigid tense
- taut
- a often brightly colored piece of skin hanging from the neck of some birds
- wattle
- unwillingly or reluctantly
- begrudingly
- a flat cake of twisted or pressed tobacco
- plug
- a difficult or adverse condition or situation
- plight
- a current moving against the main current especially in a circular motion
- eddy
- touched or stroked in a loving way
- caressed
- asleep or lying as if asleep; inactive
- dormant
- eager to fight, hostile; aggressive
- belligerent
- a rocky shoal or sandbar just below the surface of the water
- riffle
- a type of brown candy that tastes like cough drops
- horehound
- amazed or astonished
- dumbfounded
- a rail for tying up horses
- hitching rack
- buzzing or murmuring
- droning
- a short woolen coat, usually plaid and double breasted
- mackinaw
- a long narrow depression between waves or ridges
- trough
- skills in deception; guile
- cunning
- a troublesome or embarrassing situation
- predicament
- a depression or hollow
- slough
- frozen; dazed or shocked
- paralyzed
- What happened in the first scene of the book?
- dog fight
- the man helped the dog by
- bathing and feeding him
- papa gave billy__in place of the coon dogs he wanted
- traps
- billy kept catching -- in his traps
- the family cat
- while looking through a magazine one of the fishermen left behind, billy found an ad for
- coon hounds
- billy saved his money for ? how many years
- 2 years
- what good news did billy learn about the pups
- the price for pups had come down
- billy went to -- to pick up the pups
- the railroad station
- billy was going to bring the pups home
- in a gunny sack
- billy bought ? for his family
- overallys, cloth and candy
- the noise of a -- frightened billy during the night on his way back home from town
- mountain lion
- where did billly get the idea for naming his pups
- the names were carved on a tree
- billy needed a raccoon hide to
- train his pups
- the scientific study of the cultures and social structures of societies around the world
- anthropology
- the study of the life and cultures of ancient peoples as based on the recovery and examination of ancient objects
- archaeology
- the scientific study of plants
- botany
- the study of crime criminals & punishment
- criminology
- the scientific study of insects
- entomology
- the study of the origin and development of words
- etymology
- the science dealing with the physical nature and history of the earth
- geology
- the branch of mathematics that deals with the measurement, propeties, and relationships of points, lines, angles, surfaces, and solids
- geometry
- the science of language, esp. its structures and developments
- linguistics
- the science of the weather and the atmosphere
- meteorology
- the scientific study of birds
- ornithology
- the branch of geology that studies fossils to learn about ancient forms of plant and animal life
- paleontology