Waited Until Friday?Secret Life of Bees Vocab Chapters 1 & 2

Front

"I know it is _________ to compare my life to hers, but I have reason to believe she would not mind."

Back

presumptuous

Front

"My hair was black like my mother's but a nest of _____________."

Back

cowlicks

Front

"I used to go into the Sylvan _______ and smell every perfume for sale."

Back

Mercantile

Front

"The poor truck was rattling to the point I expected the hood to fly off and ________ a couple of pine trees!"

Back

decapitate

Front

"I'd never seen a tear cross her face. Now the ______ broke wide open."

Back

levee

Front

The peach trees stretched for miles and held up their leafy arms in gestures of pure _______________.

Back

beseeching

Front

"The queen is the unifying force of the community; her absence is quickly sensed by the workers."

Back

all of the above

Front

Centuries ago, prisoners were ____________ as punishment.

Back

decapitated

Front

"I repeated louder this time. A ______ feeling had broken loose in me, a daring something that had been locked up in my chest."

Back

brazen

Front

Rosaleen was _______ when she poured her snuff jar on the men’s shoes.

Back

brazen