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Below are sentences or phrases in which the vocabulary words are contained within the text of Chapter 6 of Beyond Five Aprils.
Read each sentence or phrase and see if you can determine the definition by the context in which it is used in the sentence, if you do not already know the meaning of the word.
- and the next morning he was up at dawn moving aimlessly about the cabin and out around the dooryard and woodlot
- “She’s never been selfish before,” he amended
- It could cause him any amount of labor and anguish; it took little time or intelligence or skill, and it released most effectively the malice and spite of those who took punishment into their own hands
- the Ellen went to the door, lifted the gun that was held on the hooks above the casing, and laid it carefully on the floor beside the bed
- There was one condition that must have been a matter of chagrin for the arsonists
- and began to read a few excerpts from the closely written pages, he was dismayed
- He was sound asleep before the spring night was quite dark, but excessive fatigue, like excitement, was a forerunner of the nightmares that had plagued him for the past year
- Ed Turner must have been sharply aware of the look of frailty about the boy in contrast to the great plow horses and the wide fields where Matt with his four boys and Shadrach Yale had worked only the year before
- but when he started to get up Nancy stopped him with a quick gesture
- against the brown waves of freshly plowed earth that lay sleek and glistening in the sunlight
- “I know it,” he said gruffly
- Jethro was annoyed at Shep’s gullibility, but not particularly anxious
- Jethro looked at her with mingled astonishment and disapproval
- and they were young enough to accept the sunlight and color of a new spring as omens of good fortune
- The difference in their ages seemed to have narrowed that spring, and subtly he stepped out of the role of a petted little brother and became a peer of Jenny
- They were silent again, each of them preoccupied and troubled
- lay rotting in a wet quagmire of a field
- There was only raucous, drunken laughter at his words
- and Jethro, full of hot anger toward her, was amazed that his parents were tranquil and undisturbed
- perhaps some mood of defiance for his future father-in-law had welled up in the heart of a lonely boy
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