A Week in the Woods Vocab. 2

branch of a tree

• bough

• sheath

• lanyard

• hinder

to burn or become burned

• embers

• spoor

• hinder

• charred

glowing pieces of wood or coal from a fire

• bough

• embers

• sheath

• spoor

surprising and astonishing

• tantalizing

• revelation

• distinctive

• reverence

to tease by presenting something in place but out of reach

• purify

• revelation

• tantalizing

• distinctive

to make clean; remove contaminants

• purify

• sheath

• hinder

• bough

an organism that lives in or on another organism

• sheath

• parasite

• spoor

• fulcrum

finding your way using maps and compasses

• lanyard

• orienteering

• hinder

• fulcrum

a cover for something

• orienteering

• sheath

• spoor

• lanyard

having a special quality

• reverence

• clarity

• distinctive

• revelation