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Below are sentences or phrases in which the vocabulary words are contained within the text of Chapter 7 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.
- There were stories of generals jealously eyeing one another, caring more for personal prestige than for defeating the Confederates; there were Pope and Sheridan, who blustered; there was Grant and the persistent stories of his drinking
- Men all over the country roared at the story Ross Milton embellished with cutting sarcasm and published in his weekly paper, a story that caused Wortman to be demoted, even by his own lieutenants, from the role of a swaggering desperado to that of an inept and ridiculous figure, whining in his misery
- But frm Matt down to John’s youngest boy there was a nagging fear that even the presence of the dog did not dispel altogether, an anxiety that lurked in the backs of their minds by day and came out boldly in the night
- wrote with a note of glee in their bitterness of the hoax by which Beauregard had managed to evacuate his sick and enfeebled army
- day after day of digging entrenchments, marching a little distance, stopping to dig more entrenchments
- In other years the little house had buzzed with the teasing and squabbling and hilarity of a crowd of young people
- She made the notation, Died at Pittsburg Landing, April 6th, 1862, with great care and she wiped her eyes lest the ink of the record be smudged
- He was a marksman of no mean ability; he was, moreover, stubbornly tenacious under his mild manner
- Gardiner had minced no words in his anger over what had happened at the Creighton farm that spring
- and to the satisfaction of many who saw justice finally finding a niche for itself
- the city paper carried a war story that had its own overtones of the ridiculous
- never once asking to be recognized in order to receive the plaudits of the country at large
- On the third night the ruffians struck. A back window was pried open, and the vandalism was proceeding in full force
- It brought some comfort to every member of the family to know that the big animal lay stretched at the foot of Jethro’s bed, his sharp alert to every sound outside the cabin
- has this man suffered enough to satisfy your patriotic zeal?
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