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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RI.6.4

CCSS.RL.4.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

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

Tags

CCSS.RI.4.4

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.RL.5.1

CCSS.RL.5.4

CCSS.RL.6.4