Vocabulary Practice: Brave Harriet (Ertle)

to keep going without giving up

• adjust

• gruff

• persist

• long

to want something very much

• long

• flimsy

• strain

• gruff

to push or pull hard

• long

• persist

• strain

• gruff

thin or weak, not made strong

• long

• gruff

• strain

• flimsy

rude

• persist

• strain

• gruff

• adjust

to move or change something

• strain

• adjust

• long

• persist

My desk was crooked so I had to ___________it.

• long

• persist

• adjust

• long

"Give me that toy!" shouted the boy in a _______voice.

• long

• persist

• strained

• gruff

Math was hard for Jen, but she _____________and finally undertood it.

• persisted

• gruff

• adust

• longed

Miss Ertle had to ___________to lift the heavy box.

• persist

• adjust

• strain

• longed