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 * Vocabulary Guide Questions for Mark Twain’s //Adventures of Huckleberry Finn// **

=VOCABULARY - Huckleberry Finn Chapter 1-3= Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any //**Contextual Clues**// you can find in the sentence combined with your //**Prior Knowledge**//, and write what you think the underlined words mean.

1. ...considering how __dismal__ regular and decent the widow was in all her ways, and so when I couldn't stand it no longer I lit out.

2. Well, then, the old thing __commenced__ again.

3. ...you couldn't go right to eating but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the __victuals__...

4. "Some authorities think different but mostly it's considered best to kill them-except some that you bring to the cave here, and keep them till they're __ransomed__."

5. ...though they was only __lath__ and broomsticks and you might scour at them till you rotted...

6. He said it was all done by __enchantment__.

=Vocabulary - Huckleberry Finn Chapters 4-7= Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any //**Contextual Clues**// you can find in the sentence combined with your //**Prior Knowledge**//, and write what you think the underlined words mean.

1. I was getting sort of used to the widow's way, too, and they warn't so __raspy__ on me.

2. I told him I had an old slick __counterfeit__ quarter that warn't no good because the brass showed through the silver a little...

3. And after supper he talked to him about __temperance__ and such things till the old man cried...

4. ...and in the night some time he got powerful thirsty and clumb out on to the porchroof and slid down a __stanchion__...

5. I took all the coffee and sugar there was all and all the ammunition; I took the __wadding__;...

6. ...and people might see me and __hail__ me.

=Vocabulary - Huckleberry Finn Chapters 8-11= Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any //**Contextual Clues**// you can find in the sentence combined with your //**Prior Knowledge**//, and write what you think the underlined words mean.

1. Well, then I happened to think how they always put __quicksilver__ in loaves of bread and float them off...

2. When they got __abreast__ the head of the island they quit shooting...

3. When I got to camp I warn't feeling very __brash__...

4. When breakfast was ready we __lolled__ on the grass...

5. People will call me a low-down __abolitionist__ and despise me for keeping mum...

6. "What did you __speculate__ in, Jim?"

=Vocabulary - Huckleberry Finn Chapters 12-14= Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any //**Contextual Clues**// you can find in the sentence combined with your //**Prior Knowledge**//, and write what you think the underlined words mean.

1. It was kind of __solemn__, drifting down the big, still river...

2. ...I seen that wreck laying there so __mournful__ and lonesome in the middle of the river.

3. ..."I can't rest, Jim, till we give her a __rummaging__.

4. The lightning showed us the wreck again just in time, and we fetched the stabboard __derrick__ and made it fast in time.

5. But before they got in I was up in the upper __berth__ cornered and sorry I come.

=Vocabulary - Huckleberry Finn Chapters 15-17= Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any //**Contextual Clues**// you can find in the sentence combined with your //**Prior Knowledge**//, and write what you think the underlined words mean.

1. But this one was a __staving__ dream.

2. I'm the man with a __petrified__ heart and biler-iron bowels.

3. ...willing to let __bygones__ be bygones.

4. "'Yes,' he says, a-leaning over it, 'yes, it is my own __lamented__ darling, my poor lost Charles William Allbright deceased,'...

5. ...and she was leaning __pensive__ on a tombstone on her right elbow under a weeping willow...

6. But I reckoned that with her __disposition__ she was having a better time in the graveyard.

=Vocabulary - Huckleberry Finn Chapters 18-21= Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any //**Contextual Clues**// you can find in the sentence combined with your //**Prior Knowledge**//, and write what you think the underlined words mean.

1 "Why, nothing-only it's on account of the __feud__."

2. I __ransacked__ it, but couldn't find anything else.

3. There was four or five men __cavorting__ around on their horses in the open place...

4. ...take a turn at __mesmerism__ and phrenology, when there's a chance...

5. ...take a turn at mesmerism and __phrenology__, when there's a chance...

6. We want a little something to answer __encores__ with, anyway.

7. ...you can do Hamlet's __soliloquy__.

8. Ah, it's __sublime__, sublime.

=Vocabulary - Huckleberry Finn Chapters 22-25= Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any //**Contextual Clues**// you can find in the sentence combined with your //**Prior Knowledge**//, and write what you think the underlined words mean.

1. She sent out her __yawl__ and we went aboard...

2. ...but it's a trial that's sweetened and __sanctified__ to us by this dear sympathy and these holy tears..

3. ...then he blubbers out a __pious__ goody-goody Amen, and turns himself loose and goes to crying fit to bust.

4. "Poor William, __afflicted__ as he is, his heart's aluz right."

5. "I say orgies, not because it's the common term, because it ain't-__obsequies__ being the common term-but because orgies is the right term."

=Vocabulary - Huckleberry Finn Chapters 26-28= Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any //**Contextual Clues**// you can find in the sentence combined with your //**Prior Knowledge**//, and write what you think the underlined words mean.

1. . . . but I touched the curtain that hid Mary Jane's __frocks__, so I jumped in behind that and snuggled in amongst the gowns and stood there perfectly still.

2. . . . so I rolled off my __pallet__ and laid with my chin at the top of my ladder, and waited to see if anything was going to happen.

3. The lid was shoved along about a foot, showing the dead man's face down in there, with a wet cloth over it, and his __shroud__ on.

4. He was the softest, glidingest, __stealthiest__ man I ever see;

=Vocabulary - Huckleberry Finn Chapters 29-31= Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any //**Contextual Clues**// you can find in the sentence combined with your //**Prior Knowledge**//, and write what you think the underlined words mean.

1. Oh, he done it __admirable__.

2. "This is a surprise to me which I wasn't looking for; and I'll acknowledge __candid__ and frank, I ain't very well fixed to meet it and answer it...

3. They made the king tell his yarn and they made the old gentlemen tell his'n, and anybody but a lot of __prejudiced__ chuckle-heads would a'seen that the old gentleman was spinning truth and t'other one lies.

4. And so he warmed up and went __warbling__ right along till he was actuly beginning to believe what he was saying himself, but pretty soon the new old gentleman broke in and says:

5. "Hold on, hold on! __Collar__ all these four men and the boy, and fetch them along, too!"

6. ...but I didn't lose no time; and when I struck the raft at last I was so __fagged__ I would 'a' just laid down to blow and gasp if I could afforded it.

=Vocabulary - Huckleberry Finn Chapters 32-33= Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any //**Contextual Clues**// you can find in the sentence combined with your //**Prior Knowledge**//, and write what you think the underlined words mean.

1. Yes, I remember now, he did die. __Mortification__ set in, and they had to amputate him.

2. Yes, I remember now, he did die. Mortification set in, and they had to __amputate__ him.

3. "My land!" she says, breaking in and jumping for him, "you __impudent__ young rascal, to fool a body so-"

4. "Uneasy!" she says; "I'm ready to go __distracted__!

5. I must go up the road and __waylay__ him.

=Vocabulary - Huckleberry Finn Chapters 34-39= Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any //**Contextual Clues**// you can find in the sentence combined with your //**Prior Knowledge**//, and write what you think the underlined words mean.

1. ...I couldn't see no advantage in my representing a prisoner if I got to set down and chaw over a lot of gold-leaf __distinctions__ like that every time I see a chance to hog a watermelon.

2. "Huck Finn, did you ever hear of a prisoner having picks and shovels and all the modern __conveniences__ in his wardrobe to dig himself out with?

3. "__Confound__ it, it's foolish, Tom."

4. Then he went to work on the nigger, __coaxing__ him and petting him and asking him if he'd been imagining he saw something again.

5. She kept a-raging right along, running her __insurrection__ all by herself, and everybody else mighty meek and quiet...

6. But she counted and counted till she got that __addled__ she'd start to county in the basket for a spoon sometimes...

7. It was most pesky __tedious__ hard work and slow

8. ...and Jim'll take Aunt Sally's gown off of me and wear it and we'll all __evade__ together.

=Vocabulary - Huckleberry Finn Chapters 40-43= Below are the sentences in which the vocabulary words appear in the text. Read the sentence. Use any //**Contextual Clues**// you can find in the sentence combined with your //**Prior Knowledge**//, and write what you think the underlined words mean.

1. But we didn't answer; we just __unfurled__ our heels and shoved.

2. I was just to that pass I didn't have no reasoning __facilities__ no more.

3. The men was very __huffy__ and some of them wanted to hang Jim for an example...

4. I found a good enough place for me under the bed, for it was getting pretty __sultry__ for us, seemed to me.