Vocabulary • Ch 1.1 - Where the Crawdads Sing • Definitions

What is the definition of 'gene'?

• To live or stay in a place

• A piece of information for making you

• Feeling overwhelmed and surrounded by difficulties

• To recognize or understand something clearly

What is the definition of 'dwell'?

• To live or stay in a place

• Someone who is running away from something

• To recognize or understand something clearly

• Having a strong, sharp smell or taste

What word means to say something without proof?

• profuse

• infamous

• discern

• allege

What word means to spread or scatter things apart?

• dwell

• disperse

• fugitive

• inscribe

What word means a lot or a large amount of something?

• crustacean

• disperse

• inscribe

• profuse

What word means someone who breaks the rules or rebels?

• renegade

• beleaguered

• dwell

• inscribe

What is the definition of 'scanty'?

• To say something without proof

• A piece of information for making you

• A very small amount or not enough

• Having a strong, sharp smell or taste

What word means to write or carve words onto something?

• glimpse

• beleaguered

• inscribe

• renegade

What is the definition of 'beleaguered'?

• Feeling overwhelmed and surrounded by difficulties

• Someone who breaks the rules or rebels

• To write or carve words onto something

• Small sea creature with a hard shell

What word means to recognize or understand something clearly?

• beleaguered

• malaria

• discern

• infamous