Tom Sawyer Vocabulary

To criticize or reprimand sharmly

• Beguiled

• Rebuke

• Tedious

• Furtive

Boring or tiresome

• Furtive

• Beguiled

• Tedious

• Sieve

Very noticeable; Standing Out

• Conspicuous

• Forlorn

• Oblivion

• Magnanimous

Which vocabulary word means grip something between finger and thumb?

• pinch

• loot

• tolled

Tom Sawyer often has a​ (a)   attitude towards adults.

• flippant

• scheme

• valiant

• ingenuous

He generally began the day with wishing he had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious. What does fetters mean?

• a building or room where things are sold

• a shoe

• ropes or chains that stop you from being able to move around

He generally began the day with wishing he had no intervening holiday, it made the going into captivity and fetters again so much more odious. What does captivity mean?

• being in jail or locked up

• wearing a cape

• a party

The mothers in town considered Huck to be a pariah. What does the word pariah mean?

• an outcast

• a fine citizen

• a young person

“As he joined the crowd, Tom felt a __________ (grip something between finger and thumb). It was Huck.”

• corpse

• lick

• pinch

“’We’ll take the __________ (stolen goods) to my den. I’ll bury it under the cross,’ said Injun Joe.”

• foolishness

• lick

• loot