The Year of Miss Agnes, Vocab Lessons 3-8

“Oh-ho,” said Sam. “This one’s got a little mileage. You kids are not going to get away with nothing’.”

What is the definition of mileage?

• Hidden collection, hiding spot

• Loaded transported goods

• Unit of length, measure

• Unable to hear

That Roger is just a nuisance.

What is the definition of nuisance?

• Inconvenience, annoyance

• Edge or border

• Mainland, expanse of land

• Loaded transported goods

She had us put all those books away in cardboard boxes, and she told Little Pete and Roger that after school they’d have to put them in the cache where we stored everything we didn’t need.

What is the definition of cache?

• Unit of length, measure

• A person who trades; a merchant or businessperson

• Mainland, expanse of land

• Hidden collection, hiding spot

Miss Agnes showed us how to rule a margin for our picture so there would be a white space all around.

What is the definition of margin?

• Descriptive list

• Edge or border

• A person who trades; a merchant or businessperson

• Loaded transported goods

Kenny did the stern-wheeler, George Black’s Idler, that comes up the Koyukuk River every year with all our freight.

What is the definition of freight?

• Unable to hear

• Loaded transported goods

• Inconvenience, annoyance

• Unit of length, measure

She pointed out the continents with a yardstick, and then she showed us how to find Alaska every time.

What is the definition of continents?

• Loaded transported goods

• Descriptive list

• Mainland, expanse of land

• Unit of length, measure

Like if we went to a trader in Fairbanks and sold our furs, when they added it up, we’d know if they shorted us.

What is the definition of trader?

• A person who trades; a merchant or businessperson

• Loaded transported goods

• Mainland, expanse of land

• Hidden collection, hiding spot

Still, she had time to curl her hair in these rods she had from the Sears catalog, and she made it look like in the magazine, turned back away from her face.

What is the definition of catalog?

• Descriptive list

• Unable to hear

• Unit of length, measure

• A person who trades; a merchant or businessperson

“She’s deaf,” I said. “She can’t hear you, and she can’t talk.”

What is the definition of deaf?

• Hidden collection, hiding spot

• Mainland, expanse of land

• Edge or border

• Unable to hear