soft rain vocab

Match the following

• “corn” in the Cherokee language

• taunted

• to make fun of, tease, or challenge using mean language

• siyu

• the Cherokee word for their tribe name and language

• treaty

• “Hello” in the Cherokee language

• Tsalagi

• a formal agreement between two or more countries

• selu

Match the following

• prepare and use (land) for crops or gardening.

• moccasins

• an order or to give an order or tell someone to do something

• command

• a soft leather slipper or shoe, originating among American

  Indians

• peering

• to look closely and searchingly at

• cultivating

• yellow acorn bread

• shule

Match the following

• to make stops and repetitions in speaking; stutter

• Chungke

• expressing disapproval of or objection to something; against

• protesting

• greatly surprised or impressed; amazed

• stammering

• hold (someone or something) closely in one's arms, especially as a

  sign of affection

• astonished

• a game of Native American origin

• embraced

Match the following

• to change into the words of another language

• seized

• a loud, unpleasant, and prolonged noise

• stockade

• a small enclosed area for farm animals

• pen

• a line of tall posts that are stuck in the ground

• din

• take hold of suddenly and forcibly

• translate

Match the following

• a common way of doing things. It is something that many people do,

  and have done for a long time.

• lone

• shout something with a deep loud roar or voice

• useless

• being by oneself with no support; having no company

• custom

• very unpleasant or rotten

• bellowed

• having or being of no use; not working or not achieving what is

  needed

• putrid

Match the following

• dirty; stained

• quenching

• satisfy one's thirst by drinking

• soiled

• inability or refusal to accept that something is true or real. Hard to

  believe

• disbelief

• A Native American mythical horned serpent/snake that has shining

  scales.

• uktena

• a fixed portion or share of something

• ration

Match the following

• to warn or advise against

• Terrapin

• a soft sound made by a person or group of people speaking quietly or

  at a distance

• cautioned

• weak and delicate

• brisker

• active, fast, and energetic

• frail

• one of several small species of turtle living in freshwater

• murmur

Match the following

• the white people/soldiers

• Unakas

• looking down

• utter

• a place or support for the feet

• reluctantly

• in an unwilling and hesitant way

• foothold

• to express in usually spoken words

• downcast

Match the following

• with happiness or satisfaction

• firebrands

• try persistently to persuade or encourage (someone) to do

  something.

• ferocious

• in a hurried, excited, or disorganized manner.

• contentedly

• a piece of burning wood

• frantically

• fierce, cruel, or violent

• urging

Match the following

• push, elbow, or bump against (someone) roughly

• outstretched

• to hit or strike something repeatedly and with great force

• buffeted

• a person in a group who becomes separated from the others,

  typically because of moving more slowly.

• stragglers

• extended or stretched out

• jostled

• in short supply; difficult to find

• scarce