Out of the Dust Vocabulary

moving a lot because of nervousness, boredom

• fidgety

• dazed

• quaking

to look at someone or something in a way that shows anger or disapproval

• scowl

• wisp

• searing

to make someone angry, to irritate or annoy

• ratcheted

• riled

• wince

becoming angry or annoyed easily

• whittled

• fared

• testy

to annoy or bother in a repeated way

• pestering

• ratchedted

• gleaming

good things that are given or provided freely and in large amounts

• grime

• flocked

• bounty

to reduce or get rid of slowly

• wisp

• rippled

• whittled

cloth that is covered with oil making it waterproof

• crested

• sorghum

• oilcloth

a bright or shining quality

• spindled

• gleaming

• fared

to shoot or grow into a long slender stalk

• ratcheted

• spindled

• bittering