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10 Cards in this Set
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Thieving |
Be a thief or steal something Sentence: "The stray dog was ugly, and thieving rascal, too". (pg.back of the book) |
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Romping |
Play roughly and energetically.(especially of a child or animal) Sentence: "He pounced on the fish and shut his big mouth down over it and went romping to the bank, where he dropped it down on the grass and let it flop". (pg.51) |
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Sober |
Not affected by alcohol; not drunk. Sentence: "She kept handing me sober looks all the time she was getting breakfast."(pg-8) |
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Whetted |
Excite or stimulate (someone's desire, interest, or appetite). Sentence: "It was good eating; but I’d had my appetite whetted for fried middling meat"(pg-8) |
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Poultice |
A soft, moist mass of material, typically of plant material or flour, applied to the body to relieve soreness and inflammation and kept in place with a cloth. Sentence: "But as soon as Mama had wrapped his hands in a poultice of mashed-up prickly-pear root to draw out the poison,"(pg-14) |
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Spasms |
A sudden involuntary muscular contraction or convulsive movement. Sentence: "That nearly threw Mama into spasms."(pg-14) |
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Careen |
Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction. Sentence: "The rolling cart rattled and banged and careened its way down the slope"(pg-13) |
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Heifer |
A young female cow that has not borne a calf. Sentence: "I thought of all the trouble it would be, having to tie up that spot heifer, head feet twice a day, every day, for maybe a month or more." (pg.89) |
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Squeamish |
Easily made to feel sick, faint, or disgusted, especially by unpleasant images, such as the sight of blood. (of a person) Sentence: "Mama had always been squeamish about lizards and snakes and bugs and things, and you could tell that it just made her flesh crawl to have to touch this one." (pg.134) |
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Hobbled |
Walk in an awkward way, typically because of pain from an injury. Sentence: "I hobbled down to where I couldn't miss and shot the roan bull between the eyes." (pg.156) |
