Hatchet 9-12 vocab

tinder

bits of dry wood for starting a fire

haunches

hip, buttocks, and upper part of thigh

tendrils

small, curly stems that hold up a climbing plant by coiling around something

depression

hollow or low place

gratified

pleased or satisfied

chamber

room

dormant

not moving or growing

convulse

to shake or disturb violently

assumed

to suppose something to be a fact

comprised

to consist of

gnarled

twisted, knotted

primitive

of or living in earliest times; ancient

persistent

refusing to give up

depressed

to make sad or gloomy