Birchbark House "Spring" Vocab Quiz

the act of turning something aside from its course; rerouting

• admonished

• diversion

• guffaws

• drowsily

pale; sickly

• guffaws

• drowsily

• sallow

• trough

sleepily

• drowsily

• splay

• thong

• anticipation

warned or scolded firmly

• guffaws

• sallow

• admonished

• portentous

to spread something, such as the fingers out and apart

• anticipation

• diversion

• sallow

• splay

loud, hearty laughs

• splay

• guffaws

• diversion

• thong

an open container, usually shaped like a box

• confinement

• portentous

• diversion

• trough

a narrow strip of leather, often used as a fastener

• thong

• sallow

• splay

• indistinguishable

a feeling of excitement about something that is going to happen

• indistinguishable

• portentous

• anticipation

• diversion

remarkably important; amazing

• portentous

• sallow

• confinement

• trough