Island of the Blue Dolphins Vocabulary Test Ch 9-16

Moving secretly

• basins

• sinews

• prowling

• matted

tendons

• sinews

• grating

• labored

• matted

Performed with extra effort

• prowling

• basins

• matted

• labored

Irritating

• matted

• grating

• labored

• basins

Hollow places

• basins

• sinews

• matted

• prowling

Tangled in a thick mass

• sinews

• labored

• prowling

• matted

Serving to brace a structure

• deserted

• slinking

• bracing

• brackish

Move smoothly and quietly with gliding steps, in a stealthy or sensuous manner

• deafening

• deserted

• skirted

• slinking

So loud as to make it impossible to hear anything else

• deafening

• deserted

• brackish

• skirted

Go around or past the edge of

• slinking

• brackish

• skirted

• bracing