Vocabulary activity for Chapter 17-18 of Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder!
Here are some exerts from the story. Fill in the blank with the correct vocabulary word. When you have answered all of the questions, click the "Check Answer" button. A box will pop-up with your score. Do not close until your score is printed or reviewed by your teacher.
Ma _____ among the stores he had brought, and spooned brown sugar into a tin cup.
scowled
savaged
rummaged
"It beats me," he said, "why they call a south wind a norther, and how a wind from the south can be so ____ cold."
treed
tarnation
savage
"And their camps down among the bluffs are _____ enough."
contradict
peaceable
massacre
"Jack's not afraid of anything, ever!" Laura _____.
contradicted
lingoed
massacred
He was so still that the beautiful eagle-feathers in his _____ didn't stir.
scowl
scalplock
tarnation
Jack grinned _____ and his eyes were red.
savagely
lingo
massacre
"He's got me _____," Mr. Edwards said, backing along the top of the woodpile.