As I Lay Dying Set 1

Question 1

Curvet (v)

Answer 1

1. intransitive. Of a horse: to execute a curvet, leap in a curvet; to prance.
2. intransitive. In extended use (of any animal, or a person): to leap about

Question 2

Spraddle (v)

Answer 2

to sprawl, stretch ones legs.

Question 3

Peakling (adj)

Answer 3

Puny and weakling

Question 4

Frail (v)

Answer 4

To beat, thrash.

Question 5

Tote (v)

Answer 5

transitive. To carry as a burden or load; to transport, esp. supplies to, or timber, etc. from, a logging-camp or the like. Also, to wear or carry regularly as part of one’s equipment

Question 6

Toting (adj)

Answer 6

Protruding, sticking out

Question 7

Spindle (v)

Answer 7

To shoot up or out (often of flowers, also implying thin growth)

Question 8

Spindling (adj)

Answer 8

Slender, spindly

Question 9

Travail (n +v)

Answer 9

N. Physical or mental work, esp. of a painful or laborious nature; great effort or exertion; hardship, suffering; The effort of childbirth, the pitching of a boat.
V. To exert oneself, to work hard, to torment or harass someone/thing.

Question 10

Penurious (adj)

Answer 10

1. Of a person: in need, poor, poverty-stricken.

2. Stingy, parsimonious, grudging.