Bull Run by Paul Fleishman Vocabulary

Who was the President whent he Civil War began?

• Dwight D Eisenhower

• William H Taft

• Abraham Lincoln

• Theodore Roosevelt

sullen

• appearing sad or lonely because one feels deserted or abandoned.

• gloomy or somber

• heavy, round

• easy to attack

vulnerable

• a slender, flexible rod used for whipping

• easy to attack

• gloomy or somber

• to walk or tramp about

gawk

• to stare or gape stupidly

• type of raptor

• extremely hungry

• not busy or working

Shrapnel

• Not busy or working

• weakness

• ill-mannered

• fragments from an exploded artillery shell

traipse

• reduced to extreme weakness

• a heavy cavalry sword with a one-edged, slightly curved blade.

• to walk or tramp about

• an overwhelming defeat

kin

• oven for baking pottery

• one's relative; family

• crossed a body of water

• a heavy rain

tourniquet

• bandage

• overwhelming defeat

• a heavy cavalry sword with a one-edged slightly curved blade.

• crossed a body of water

prostrate

• a heavy rain

• reduced to extreme weakness

• bandage

• very hot or stuffy

switch

• a really fun game console

• a slender flexible rod, stick or twig, especially one used for whipping.

• a heavy rain

• pulled or drawn tight