Vocabulary+Chp.+1

 Use a dictionary to look up the following words. Then find them in the novel ( the page numbers are given). Use the context clues to chooses the correct definition, and write a sentence for each, using the word in the same context as it is used in the story. Remember to underline the word in your sentence.

Use sentence variety and action verbs.

1. Eloquent (author's note): Our principal was not an __eloquent__ speaker, but we liked hearing him give the graduation speech. definition: Eloquent means to ​have or exercise the power of fluent, forceful, and appropriate speech.

2. Punctuated (pg.2): The croud's applause __punctuated__ the mayor's speech. definition: To mark with punctuated marks, to make something more clear. OR, To break into or interupt at intervals.

3. Calloused (pg. 4): The soot-coated blacksmith's hands were __calloused__ from his years of hard work. definition: To make hard, or parts of the skin that have been frictioned down.

Usually the part of skin that has been calloused is much tougher, like if you walk bare foot on rocks that would toughen your feet.

4. Heritage (pg.5): My teacher was an excellent spanish speaker due to her mexican __heritage__. definition: something that comes or belongs to one by reason of birth; an inherited lot or portion The backround in which you were born in example:Polish

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5. Long-sustained (pg. 5): The wolf's __long-sustained__ howl echoed through the forest. definition: To be provided with noureshment / long lasting.

6. Kernels (pg. 8) definition: the softer, usually edible part contained in the shell of a nut or the stone of a fruit.

7. Chitlins (pg 15) definition: The small intestine of swine, esp. when prepared as food.

8. Sowbelly (pg. 15): Mother had prepared a fine supper of __sowbelly__ and fresh homemade bread. definition: Salt pork from the belly of a female hog. Sow means female hog, so, yeah it's female hog belly, Yum!

9. Whetstone (pg 16): He slaved away, sharpening his knife on the __whetstone__ until it was so sharp it seemed as if it could slice a rock with slightest touch. definition: A flat stone for sharpening edged tools or knives