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Vocabulary Lists for Short Stories

"Rikki Tikki Tavi" "Duffy's Jacket"

“Yeti-like Monster Gives Staid Town in Illinois a Fright”

  1. immensely

  2. cowered

  3. valiant

  4. consolation

  5. impotent

 

  1. fumigating

  2. sentinel

  3. sabotage

  4. huddled

 

  1. staid

  2. eternity

  3. amplified

  4. elusive

  5. commotion

 

"Mother and Daughter"

  1. matinees

  2. antics

  3. meager

  4. sophisticated

 

 

"Smallest Dragonboy"

  1. goaded

  2. imminent

  3. perturbed

  4. confrontation

  5. alleviate

 

 "Song of the Trees"

  1. finicky

  2. dispute

  3. ambled

  4. delved

  5. curtly

  6. skirting

  7. elude

  8. incredulous

  9. ashen

  10. sentries

 

 

 
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