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Below are sentences or phrases in which the vocabulary words are contained within the text of Chapter 1 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.
- Jethro was accustomed to adapting himself to the behaviors and moods of older people
- but this was the son who had been spared that summer when children all around were dying of the agonizing sickness
- who had known the frustration of trying to penetrate the apathy and unconcern of a backwoods classroom
- she had borne twelve children
- He filled a burlap pouch with the potato cuttings and hoisted it expertly to his thin shoulder
- Even if she had been concerned, there were reverberations of Calvinism strong within her, which would have protested vigorously against the vanity of regret for a passing beauty.
- but I’m fearful of the day when they face their comeuppance
- she didn’t think much about it anymore except now and then when Jenny’s fourteen-year-old radiance was especially compelling.
- It was a coveted honor and he accepted it with dignity
- Whether the story was true or not, suspicion and dislike settled upon the family, and thirty years had failed to dissipate it
- There were chinch bugs and grasshoppers, months of drought, elections, slavery, secession, talk of war - the adult world of trouble
- Matthew Creighton was held in high esteem by his neighbors
- She had a way of closing her eyes briefly when exasperated as if to reject if for at least a second the existence of a folly that she was bound to recognize later
- For months he has moved along the edge of the furor that raged among the adults of his family, of the neighborhood, and even of the church
- Jethro placed a cutting, eye upward, in the spot hollowed out for it, after which she raked a covering of soil over it and moved down the long furrow
- Ellen was grave and absorbed in the anxious thoughts of that spring
- He was a tall, powerfully built youth of twenty, with a firm mouth and grave, dark eyes that gave him the appearance of an older man
- Jenny was already making preparations for a hearty noon meal
- Jethro was depressed by her somber mood, but not by the imminence of war
- Jethro was not going to talk to his mother too much of either languages or wars, but he knew that, as far as the latter were concerned, he was one with young Tom and Eb when they hoped that war would come soon
- Dread of war was a womanly weakness, he had discovered, evidenced by his mother’s melancholy and the tears of Jenny and his brother John’s wife, Nancy
- From the fields across the creek came the monotonous shout to the field horses
- that meant enough to set this day apart from the monotonous routine of many others
- Ellen turned back to her work slowly as if overwhelmed by a deep weariness
- after a private talk with her father, the young schoolmaster had taken on a solemn and paternal attitude toward her, which Jenny found intensely annoying and unsatisfactory
- three of her children died within one week of the dreaded disease they called child’s paralysis
- Matt had made a pretext of needing supplies from town, but she knew that this trip to Newton in the midst of a late planting season would have been unthinkable except for the urgency of getting word from the world beyond their own fields and woods pastures
- the prim, green rows of vegetables in the garden
- “I reckon you didn’t, Jeth, not that I’m able to recollect.”
- “That ain’t in the Scriptures, is it, Jeth?”
- the whole Burdow family was commonly despised throughout the countryside as a shiftless lot with a bad background
- He had been stricken with typhoid fever
- She was a small, spare woman
- he felt ready to stride down the length of the field with a firm step and a joke on his lips
- The Burdow children were nicknamed “Jail Burd-ows” by taunting schoolmates
- “I wisht there was a telegraph in Newton, Shad,” she said
- many people around him were troubled, he knew, but that was a part of the adult world which he accepted as a matter of course. Adults were usually troubled.
- but he supposed, if he thought of it at all, that this was the natural behavior of people interested in a vague thing called politics.
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