Tuck Everlasting 1-5 Vocabulary

Still, it was galling, this having to admit she was afraid. And when she remembered the toad, she felt even more_________________.

And all at once the sun was uncomfortable hot, the dust oppressive, and the ______________grass along its edges somewhat ragged and forlorn.

The people would have noticed the giant ash tree at the center of the wood, and then, in time. they'd have noticed the little spring bubbling up among its roots in spite of the pebbles piled there to _____________ it.

And that would have been a disaster so _________ that this weary old earth, owned or not to its fiery core, would have trembles on its axis like a beetle on a pin.

He was still asleep, and the ________________ creases that folded his daytime face were smoothed and slack.

The gnats were too frantic to notice these intrusions, however, and since every pebble missed its final mark, the toad continued to squat and ___________ without so much as a twitch.

"I didn't mean to watch you," she __________ as she stepped into the clearing.

Winnie had been no more than two slow minutes walking ___________ under the interlacing branches when she wondered why she had never come here before.

Indeed, he seemed almost to hang suspended there in the _______________.

"And why shouldn't I be fit?" she ______________, peering at him through the fading light.