Roll Of Thunder Vocabulary Flash Card Set All Chaptars
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- Penetrating
- That can penetrate.
- Gusto
- Taste;Liking
- Kin
- Relatives;Family;Kinfolk
- Splotched
- A spot, splash, or stain
- Respective
- As relates individually to each of two or more persons or things
- Consequently
- As a result, By logical interference
- Embittered
- To make bitter
- Dejected
- In low spirits, depressed
- Comical
- Causing amusement; humorous
- coddling
- Treat in overprotective manner
- Ignorant
- Having little knowledge, education, or experience
- Flippantly
- Glib, talkative
- Relent
- To soften in temper
- Conspiratially
- Of or charactistic of a conspritor or conspiracy
- Hastened
- To cause to be or come fast
- Contagious
- Spread by direct or indirect contact
- Listlessly
- Having no intrest in what is going on
- Precariously
- Dependent upon by the will or favor of another person
- Destination
- The end of something started
- Apprehensive
- Worried that something bad will happen
- Intention
- Something that somebody plans to achieve
- Interminable
- So long and boring or frustrating as to seem endless
- Faltering
- Becoming undure and hesitant
- Condune
- To regard something that is considered immoral or wrong in a tolerant way, without criticizing it or feeling stronly about it
- Anecdote
- A brief story aboout an interesting,amusing, or strange event
- Exposition
- In the plot of a story or a drama is part of the work that introduces characters, setting, and basic situations
- Churn
- A container of machine in which milk or cream is beaten and shaken to form butter
- Caravan
- A number of vechles traveling together
- Absurd
- Not to be heard of
- Discourse
- To carry out a conversation
- Feigned
- To make up, frabrication
- Aloof
- Uninvolved or unwilling to become involved with other people.
- Disclosure
- The revealing of secreat information
- Subtle
- Slight or not obvious
- Intermingle
- To mix together, blend
- Inference
- A conclusion drawn from evidence or reasoning
- Motivation
- The reason for doing something or behaving in a particular way
- Pestering
- TO be a constant source of annoyance to someone
- Obnoxious
- Very offence and unpleasent
- Subdued
- Not bright, loud, or intence, or made less bright, loud, or intence.
- Warily
- Cautious and watchful
- Bunions
- Inflamation around the fight joint of the big toe
- Merchantile
- Sore used for trade or by merchants and buyers
- Amble
- To walk slowly in a relaxed
- audible
- Load or clear enough to be heard
- Consciously
- Doing something awake and resposive to stimuli
- Triumphantly
- Doing something with feeling great pride in having achieved a victory
- Narrator
- A speaker or character who tells the story
- Point of View
- Perspective of which the story is told
- First Person
- Character who uses pronoun "I"
- Third Person
- Narrator uses the third person pronouns like "he" and "she"
- Protagonist
- Main character in a literary work
- Antagonish
- A character or force in conflict with the main character or protagonist
- Conflict
- Struggle between opposing forces
- External conflict
- A character struggles against an outside force
- Internal Conflict
- Character struggling to make a decisionn, take an action, or overcome a feeling
- Concession
- Anact or instance of conceding, granting, or yeilding
- Dispostion
- tendency to act in a certain manner undergiven circumstantes
- Sharcrop(ped)/(ping)
- To produce crop and recieve credit on borrowed land
- Tormentor
- A person who tortures
- Loitering
- To remain in an area with obvious reason
- Knell
- Sound of a bell struck slowly
- Vigorously
- Acting in full physical or mental strength
- Milling
- Grain of flour
- Dubious
- A doubtful outcome
- Startling
- Causing momentary fright, surprise, or ashtonishment