Unit 3 - Native American

Tremedous

Very great in amount, scale, or intensity

Frantically

In a hurried, excited or disorganized manner

Devious

Using deceit (dishonesty) or trickery to achieve one’s goals

Contend

Struggle or go against another

Pliable

Easily bent or influenced; flexable

Contentment

A state of satisfaction

Encampment

A gathering of temporary housing such as tents

Thunderous

Very loud, powerful, or intense

Muskrat

A large semiaquatic North America rodent with a musky smell valued for its fur

Briars

Any of a number of prickly scrambling shrubs

Baneberry

The bitter, typically poisonous berry of the baneberry plant

Dogberry

A fruit of poor eating quality from any of a number of other shrubs or small trees

Flint

A piece of flint, especially as flaked or ground in ancient times to form a tool or weapon. Also used to spark fire

Delicacy

A choice or expensive food

Mutilate

Inflict serious damage on

Clod

A lump of earth or clay

Quiver

An archer’s portable case for holding arrowsVanquish

Vanquish

Defeat thoroughly

Succumb

Die from the effect of a disease or injury

Reign

Hold office like that of a king or queen

Domain

An area of territory owned or controlled by a ruler or government

Boil

An inflamed pus-filled swelling on the skin, caused typically by the infection of a hair follicle

Rumbling

A continuous deep, resonant sound

Scold

To express disapproval angrily

Marrow

A soft fatty substance in the cavities of bones, in which blood cells or produced

Astonish

Greatly surprised or impressed; amazed

Suit

Go weel or enhance the features, figure, or character of someone

Fickle

Changing frequently, especially as regards one’s loyalties, interest, or affection

Giddy

Excitable and frivolous (lacking = seriousness or purpose)

Lure

Tempt to do something or go somewhere, especially by offering some form of reward