Where the Red Fern Grows Vocabulary Ch 1-5

took a risky or dangerous step

• ventured

• heft

• grit

• urgency

type of mint candy

• ventured

• sparsely

• horehound

• fared

amazed

• festered

• horehound

• grit

• dumbfounded

to gather or summon, as in courage

• squalling

• canebrakes

• muster

• cur

thought about slowly and carefully

• mulled

• winced

• drastic

• amends

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.5.4

become painful or inflamed

• winced

• canebrake

• commotion

• festered

not thickly grown or settled; thinly

• fared

• sparsely

• winced

• urgency

to test the weight of something by lifting it

• heft

• muster

• canebrakes

• cur

experienced good fortune; to proceed toward a goal

• ventured

• fared

• squalling

• drastic

loud screaming or crying

• sparsely

• fared

• grit

• squalling

Tags

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.7.4

CCSS.RL.7.4