Ch 3 Vocab

Question 1

Predicted

Answer 1

To make an educated guess before something happens

Question 2

Teeming

Answer 2

To be found in large quantities, overflowing

Question 3

Frugally

Answer 3

Not spending a lot of money, or resources, being stingy or thrifty.

Question 4

Windswept

Answer 4

Blown or swept by the wind.

Question 5

Ingenious

Answer 5

Someone good at discovering, or inventing.

Question 6

Swamp

Answer 6

A wetland occasionally covered with water.

Question 7

Tide

Answer 7

Water level rising, and falling, as a result of the moon’s gravity.

Question 8

Canopy

Answer 8

The ceiling of a forest, made of the branches and leaves of the tallest trees.

Question 9

Glum

Answer 9

Feeling really down.

Question 10

Yielded

Answer 10

To get a return after effort, usually farming or money investments.

Question 11

Murky

Answer 11

Foggy or smoky, hard or impossible to see through.

Question 12

Squelchy

Answer 12

Moving with a sucking noise

Question 13

Comfort Zone

Answer 13

A level at which you feel capable and the task is easy.

Question 14

Conclusion

Answer 14

The last part of something

Question 15

Precisely

Answer 15

Exactly correct

Question 16

Debts

Answer 16

Something that you owe, for something that was given.

Question 17

Auction

Answer 17

Public sale that goes to the highest bidder.

Question 18

Master

Answer 18

An owner of enslaved people, or slaveholder.

Question 19

Stumbled

Answer 19

To lose your balance or fall.

Question 20

Plantation

Answer 20

An estate where crops are grown by resident labor.

Question 21

Patrolled

Answer 21

To guard something by walking around it.

Question 22

Curled

Answer 22

To shift into a curved or spiral shape.

Question 23

Screech

Answer 23

A loud, harsh, piercing cry.

Question 24

Grumbled

Answer 24

Complaining in a bad tempered way, grouchy.