Charlotte's Web Week 1 Vocabulary

Fern got out of bed ________ one morning, and that is how she found her dad with the runty pig.

• perspiration

• orchard

• manure

• promptly

The Zuckerman's barn smelled of the _________ of tired horses and the wonderful sweet breath of patient cows.

• perspiration

• orchard

• chuckled

• promptly

Fern broke down and ________ when Wilbur had to move from her home to the Zuckerman's. But her father was firm about it. 

• wept

• commotion

• chuckled

• swallows

At school, Fern just sat and stared out of the window, thinking what a _______ world it was and how lucky she was to have entire charge of a pig. 

• chuckled

• commotion

• blissful

• swallows

Wilbur was taken from his home under the apple tree and went to live in a _______ pile in the cellar of Zuck­erman's barn. 

• chuckled

• manure

• commotion

• swallows

The goose ________ when Wilbur had squeezed through the fence and was standing in the long grass outside his yard.

• chuckled

• manure

• commotion

• swallows

When Wilbur escaped, the goose yelled for him to go down through the ________, root up the sod! Go down through the garden, dig up the radishes! Root up everything!

• perspiration

• manure

• commotion

• orchard

Wilbur walked slowly to his food _______ and sniffed to see if anything had been overlooked at lunch. He found a small strip of potato skin and ate it.

• perspiration

• trough

• commotion

• promptly

When Wilbur escaped, the cocker spaniel heard the ________ and he ran out from the barn to join the chase.

• perspiration

• manure

• commotion

• promptly

It was the kind of barn that ________ like to build their nests in. It was the kind of barn that children like to play in. 

• perspiration

• swallows

• commotion

• promptly