Hatchet Vocabulary Chapters 8-12

The first faint light hit the silver of the hatchet, and it flashed a _______ gold in the light. Like fire. That is it, he thought. What they were trying to tell me.

• apparent

• upright

• segment

• brilliant

His fingers _______ touched a group of needles that had been driven through his pants and into the fleshy part of his calf.

• apparent

• gingerly

• upright

• segment

I can't do this, he thought, again and again. I can't. Brian pulled himself up until he was sitting _______ back in the corner of the cave.

• apparent

• gingerly

• upright

• brilliant

It was some form of chalky granite, or a sandstone, but _______ in it were large pieces of a darker stone, a harder and darker stone.

• imbedded

• tinder

• tendrils

• smoldered

He started ripping the bark, using his fingernails at first, and when that didn't work he used the sharp edge of the hatchet. It was _______ work, slow work, and he stayed with it for over two hours.

• imbedded

• tinder

• painstaking

• smoldered

A cloud of sparks rained down, and some hit in the depression, _________ and caused the bark to take on the red glow.

• imbedded

• tinder

• tendrils

• smoldered

Clearly there had to be something for the sparks to ignite, some kind of _______ or kindling---but what? He brought some dried grass in, tapped sparks into it and watched them die.

• tinder

• tendrils

• imbedded

• smoldered

Where the bark was peeling from the trunks, it lifted in tiny _______, almost fluffs. Brian plucked some of them loose, and rolled them in his fingers.

• tinder

• tendrils

• painstaking

• smoldered

The curve of the rock back made an almost perfect drawing _______ that carried the smoke up through the cracks of the roof but held the heat.

• flue

• stock

• eddied

• dusk

He sat through a long part of the day, keeping the flames even, eating from his _______ of raspberries, leaving to drink from the lake when he was thirsty.

• flue

• stock

• eddied

• dusk