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Word |
Page # |
Definition |
| badger | 33 | an animal that lives in the ground and has short thick legs and long claws on its front feet |
| cud | 41 | the food that an animal brings back up from its stomach into its mouth to be chewed again |
| dreadful | 35 | very bad or unpleasant |
| fetch | 34 | to go after something and bring it back |
| gouge | 39 | to make a deep hole in something |
| heave | 29 | to lift or pull something with effort |
| lichen | 37 | a type of small plant that grows on rocks and walls |
| mend | 34 | to make cloth or materials usable again |
| milch | 41 | milk |
| outlandish | 43 | very strange or unusual |
| quiver | 33 | to shake with a slight but rapid motion |
| surge | 39 | to move very quickly and suddenly |
| trample | 38 | to cause damage or pain by walking or stepping heavily on something |
Definitions utilized from Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary and Merriam-Webster's Word Central Dictionary based on use in On the Banks of Plum Creek.
by: Casey Jo Burrus © 2016
Bingham, Illinois
updated:
June 5, 2016
Cowden-Herrick Schools