Touching Spirit Bear Flashcards

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Q

Cole Matthews in the bow of the aluminum skiff as he faced forward into a cold September wind. Worn steel handcuffs bit at his wrists each time the small craft slapped into another wave.

A

Defiantly

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Cole strained at the cuffs even though he had agreed to wear to waer them until he was freed on the island to begin his banishment.

A

Banishment

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3
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Cole feigned surprise as if he had made a horrible mistake, then twisted at the handcuffs again.

A

Feigned

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4
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Several weeks earlier, Edwin, the Tlingit elder from Drake, had built a sparse one- room wood shelter for Cole on the island

A

Sparse

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5
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This island is covered with Devil’s club. Don’t grab it or hundreds of tiny Thistles will infect your hands and make them swell up like sausages.

A

Devil’s Club

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Spewing a barrage of venomous curses, he took the blanket Garvey had given him and flung it to the ground.

A

Barrage

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Cole walked sullenly around the room. cursing he swept his arm across the table and sent the baking ingredients

A

Sullenly

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8
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Wrapping broke open. Plastic containers ricocheted off the wall.

A

Ricocheted

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9
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My parents- that’s a joke,” Cole scoffed. “they don’t care if i’m dead or alive”

A

Scoffed

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10
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Peter walked awkwardly, shuffling his feet and glancing timidly around around the room.

A

Timidly

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11
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This circle carries only two Obligations-honesty and respect

A

Obligations

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12
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He shook his head to clear the Illusion, but it was no Illusion this was the same spot he had been at a thousand strokes.

A

Illusion

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13
Q

All he could Conjure up were fleeting nations; he couldn’t stand up, He needed warmth

A

Conjure

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14
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“Cole has will and Courage, but he also has ugly anger

A

Will and Courage

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15
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Cole swatted at the Persistent mosquitoes and studied the bay. His only mistake in trying to escape had been forgetting about the incoming tide

A

Persistent

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16
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Steady blowing soon coaxed a weak flame to life. This time he would leave with his body warm and his belly full of food.

17
Q

Cole turned his head and stared into the the black nothingness of the shrouded woods

18
Q

For two hours his mind roiled with turbulent thoughts before he fell into a restless tortured sleep

19
Q

A blur of white motion deflected the shaft down into the grass as the bear lunged

20
Q

What would happen when the last bit of warmth seeped from his body

21
Q

Desperate tears welled up inside and squeezed past his eyelids.

22
Q

Watching the bird made Cole curse every second of his miserable and haphazard life.

23
Q

he felt himself slipping into darkness and blinked hard, doggedly clinging to life, willing himself to not let go.

24
Q

All his life he had squandered his choices, wallowing in revenge and self-pity, keeping himself down

A

Squandered

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This mouse was his quarry, like a gull catching a herring or an owl catching a rabbit
Quarry
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He dropped them into his mouth, and chewed. the animals weren't the only one who could forage to survive
Forage
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The wretched insects sucked life from him faster than he could replenish it. He closed his eyes to the bloodletting, but that did not stop the torment,
Wretched
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A second time it dipped its head then stepped back away. with one fluid motion, it swug around and ambled silently down toward the waterline
Ambled
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The screaming of the engine grew muted, replaced by anxious voices shouting to them.
Muted