Hatchet: Vocabulary Chapter 1-3

“It was a small plane, a Cessna 406 - a bus plane - and the engine was so loud, so roaring and ________.”

• altitude

• consuming

• drone

• rudder

“The plane clawed for ________, jerking and sliding on the wind currents as the pilot took off.”

• altitude

• consuming

• rudder

• drone

“The pilot had been silent staring out the front, and the _______ of the engine had been all that was left.”

• rudder

• consuming

• drone

• altitude

“The pilot sat large, his hands lightly on the wheel,

feet on the ______ petals.”

• consuming

• altitude

• rudder

• drone

“Now the plane _____ slightly to the right and Brian looked at the pilot.”

• lurched

• audible

• turbulence

• hurtling

“The pilot’s words were a hiss, barely ________.”

• lurched

• audible

• turbulence

• hurtling

“The pilot did not move except that his head rolled on a neck impossibly loose as the plane hit a small bit of ______.”

• lurched

• audible

• turbulence

• hurtling

“He left like a prisoner, kept in a small cell that was _______ through the sky at what he thought to be 160 miles an hour.”

• lurched

• audible

• turbulence

• hurtling

________ = (of a feeling) absorb all of the attention and

energy of (someone)

• consuming

• altitude

• drone

• rudder

_______ = the height of an object or point in relation to

sea level or ground level.

• consuming

• altitude

• drone

• rudder