Vocabulary

Most of the vocabulary in this book can be defined using context clues, as they aren't really "real" or common words, so context clues could be something great to teach with this book.

1. linder- a brilliant white stone marbled with pale veins of pink, blue, green, or silver (not real)   (p.8)
2. wafted- to float easily and gently on air (p.9)
3. scree- broken rock that appears at the bottom of crags, mountain cliffs, or valley shoulders. (p.13)
4. tethers- cords that anchor something, such as an animal or small child, to something else, such as a pole. (p.17)
5. supplication- a humble request; a prayer or entreaty to a god (p.22)
6. gruel- a type of preparation consisting of some type of cereal boiled in water or milk. It is similar to porridge, but is more often drunk than eaten. (p.24)
7. brusque- rudely abrupt, unfriendly (p.42)
8. reverent- showing respect (p.65)
9. tome- large or scholarly book (p.66)
10. unrepentant- showing no sorrow for doing wrong (p.68)
11. plating- braiding (p.78)
12. interlocutor- someone involved in a conversation (p.93)
13. affronted- insulted (p.96)
14. blathered- talked rapidly without making much sense (p.97)
15. jop- a fluty instrument (not real) (p. 99)
16. impudence- shamelessness
17. adament- inflexible (p. 117)
18. dross- waste (p. 152)
19. ruffians- deceitful, brutal, and unreliable persons (p. 162)
20. demeanor- the way people behave on the outside to others (p. 162)
21. grimace- smirk (p. 213)
22. stoically- a manner of enduring pain and hardship without showing feeling or complaint (p. 215)
23. disparaging- insulting (p. 221)
24. cudgels- a short heavy club with a rounded head used as a weapon (p.232)
25. staves- the individual woodstrips that form the sides of a barrel (p.232)
26. despondency- the loss of hope or confidence (p.258)
27. deft- quick and neat in action; skillful (p.264)
28. precarious- dangerously insecure or unstable (p. 281)
29. promenade- to perform the stylized walk of a square dance (p. 287)
30. divination- a forseeing or foretelling of future events (p.295)
31. diligent- performing with intense concentration (p. 308)