- 1. ___________________________ -having a very loud, high-pitched sound
“ Little Arliss’s second scream, when it came, was louder and _________________________ and more frantic-sounding than the first.”
A) roan
B) clout
C) shrill
D) depredation
- 2. ________________________ -to be angry or upset about something and to refuse to discuss it with other people
“Little Arliss sat in the dog run and _______________________while I packed water from the spring.”
A) poultice
B) clout
C) shrill
D) sulked
- 3. ____________________________ -a soft, usually heated substance that is spread on cloth and then placed on the skin to heal a sore or reduce pain
“But as soon as Mama wrapped his hands in a _______________________ of mashed up prickly-pear root to draw out the poison, Little Arliss forgot all about his hurt.”
A) thickets
B) poultice
C) sulked
D) clout
- 4. __________________________ -the ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse
“Then I got me a second rope and tied it tight around his middle, just back of his _________________________.”
A) wallowing
B) sulked
C) withers
D) thickets
- 5. ______________________________ -to hit very hard from the side
“He caught Chongo __________________________.”
A) wallowing
B) broadside
C) clout
D) poultice
- 6. ________________________ -a thick usually small patch of shrubbery, small trees, and underbrush
“We could hear his angry rumbling as he moved down through the ____________________________ of catclaw and scrub oak.”
A) poultice
B) thickets
C) broadside
D) withers
- 7. . _____________________________ -white hairs on an animal mixed in with a darker color
“He was the red ____________________________I’d seen at the Salt Licks the day I shot the doe.”
A) roan
B) poultice
C) shrill
D) clout
- 8. ___________________________- to roll around in deep mud or water
“He went down, yelling and pitching and _______________________.”
A) wallowing
B) poultice
C) thickets
D) withers
- 9. ________________________ -a usually violent act where something is destroyed or damaged.
“They kept them as watchdogs against the ______________________of loafer wolves, bears, panthers, and raiding Indians.”
A) wallowing
B) thickets
C) shrill
D) depredation
- 10. _________________________ -to hit very hard with your hand
“ …I just stood there with my mouth open and let him ___________________________ me a good one before I thought to move.”
A) poultice
B) sulked
C) broadside
D) clout
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