Everyday Use

Question 1

Furtive

Answer 1

1) Adjective
2) Attempting to avoid notice typically because of embarassment
3) “‘Mama, when did Dee ever have friends?’ She had a few. Furtive boys in pink shirts hanging about on wash-day after school” (169).

Question 2

Cowering

Answer 2

1) Verb
2) Crouch down in fear
3) “She stoops down quickly and lines up picture after picture of me sitting there in front of the house with Maggie cowering behind me” (170).

Question 3

Doctrines

Answer 3

1) Noun
2) Set of beliefs held and taught by a church, political party or other specific group
3) “I accept some of their doctrines but farming and raising cattle is not my style” (171).

Question 4

Clabber

Answer 4

1) Noun
2) Milk that has naturally clotted on souring
3) “She jumped up from the table and went over in the corner where the churn stood, the milk in it clabber by now”(171).

Question 5

Dasher

Answer 5

1) Noun
2) Plunger for agitating cream in a churn
3) “‘I want the dasher…”’ (171).

Question 6

Heritage

Answer 6

1) Noun
2) Property that is or may be inherited
3) “‘What don’t I understand ?’… ‘your heritage,’ she said” (174).