Tom Sawyer - Vocab. Ch. 1-10 Flashcards
Guile
sly, or cunning intelligence.
Like how Tom tricked the boys to white washing the fence for him.
Alacrity
brisk and cheerful readiness.
Like how Mary and Sid went to church with alacrity.
Audacious
showing a willingness to take huge risks.
Like how Tom was willing to express his love to Becky, even thought he may be rejected.
Desolate
(of a place) state of bleak and bare emptiness.
Like how Mark Twain described the graveyard.
Prodigy
a person endowed with exceptional qualities or abilities.
Like the German boy at the church who could say 3000 verses with out stopping after memorizing the verses.
Vagrant
a person or a state of living as one with out a settled home or work, who wanders from place to place.
Kind of like Tom, who is never at school or home, wandering around town playing with boys and flirting with girls.
Facetious
treating a serious moment with inappropriate humor.
like when Tom released the pinch bug in the church in the middle of the service.
Odious
Extremely unpleasant.
Becky found it odious when Tom mentioned Amy Lawrence’s name.
Furtive
to avoid notice or attention, typically because of guilt or nervousness.
Tom and Huck were furtive in the graveyard because they didn’t want to draw attention to the men that seemed suspicious.
Futility
pointless or useless.
school in Tom’s point of view.
Pallid
physically* pale because of poor health.
Tom and Huck looked pallid when they saw the dead body in the graveyard
Cogitate
To think deeply of something.
