WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS VOCABULARY CHAPTERS 1-3

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WHERE THE RED FERN GROWSVOCABULARY CHAPTERS 1-3

• Residential
• After all it wasnt anything to get excited
  about, just another dogfight in a residential
  section.
• (designed for or suitable for housing)
• Mulled
• I mulled them over in my mind.
• (thought over)

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WHERE THE RED FERN GROWSVOCABULARY CHAPTERS 1-3

• Eaves
• Next, I went to the barn and up in the loft.
  Far back over the hay and up under the eaves, I
  hid my can.
• (edges of a roof)
• Winced
• I took one look at my bare feet and winced.
• (to draw back or tense the body in pain)

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WHERE THE RED FERN GROWSVOCABULARY CHAPTERS 1-3

• having a pleasant smell
• worthless or unfriendly dog
• dense growth of cane plants
• thought over
• edges of a roof
• test the weight of something by lifting it
• type of mint candy
• loud screaming or crying

• aromatic
• cur
• canebrakes
• mulled
• eaves
• heft
• horehound
• squalling

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WHERE THE RED FERN GROWSVOCABULARY CHAPTERS 4-6

• winced
• gawked
• sorghum
• grit
• vicious
• painstaking

• drew back or tensed body as from pain (flinch)
• stared stupidly
• grain used to make syrup
• stubborn courage
• cruel, spiteful
• extremely precise and careful

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WHERE THE RED FERN GROWSVOCABULARY CHAPTERS 1-6

• For your vocabulary homework, you have four
  options
• 1). Write sentences for each word.
• 2). Draw pictures of each word.
• 3). Create a crossword puzzle using all the
  vocabulary words from chapters 1-6.
• 4). Do a combination of 1 2.

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WHERE THE RED FERN GROWSVOCABULARY CHAPTERS 7-10

• churn
• bottoms
• domain
• momentum
• nonchalantly
• salve
• fulfilled

• canister for making butter
• land through which a river or creek flows
• dominion or field or interest
• force of a moving object
• casually
• soothing ointment
• satisfied completed

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WHERE THE RED FERN GROWSVOCABULARY CHAPTERS 11-12

• puzzling problem or difficult solution
• moving in circles in the opposite direction of
  the main stream (whirlpool)
• looking meanly, as if eager to do evil
• moved sideways
• chew on

• predicament
• eddy
• leering
• sidled
• gnaw

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WHERE THE RED FERN GROWSVOCABULARY CHAPTERS 13-15

• frayed
• foliage
• mackinaw
• jubilant
• heedless
• tarp

• worn or ragged
• leaves
• short, woolen coat
• joyful, triumphant
• careless, not paying attention
• waterproof covering

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WHERE THE RED FERN GROWSVOCABULARY CHAPTERS 16-18

• carefully
• moved suddenly and quickly (like a butterfly or
  hummingbird)
• narrow channel made by running water (ditch)
• worn-out and thin-looking
• shelf that forms the top of a fireplace
• assigned

• gingerly
• flitted
• Gully
• haggard
• mantel
• allotted

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WHERE THE RED FERN GROWSVOCABULARY CHAPTERS 19-20

• predatory
• jugular
• cleaved
• entrails
• churring

• killing and eating animals to survive
• large vein in the neck
• split by cutting
• intestines
• low whirring sound