Gone with the Wind (Vocab 2)

Skylark

Pass time by playing tricks or practical jokes; indulge in horseplay.

Everyone liked the four Tarleton boys and the three Fontaines, but regretfully refused to elect them, because the Tarletons got lickered up too quickly and liked to ___, and the Fontaines had such quick, murderous tempers.

Marksman

A person skilled in shooting, especially with a pistol or rifle.

Most Southerners were born with guns in their hands, and lives spent in hunting had made ___ of them all.

Pamper

Indulge with every attention, comfort, and kindness; spoil.

There were pain and bewilderment in her face, the bewilderment of a ___ child who has always had her own way for the asking and who now, for the first time, was in contact with the unpleasantness of life.

Homeliness

The quality of being simple or ordinary, but pleasant, in a way that makes you think of home.

Scarlett recalled with contempt Melanie’s thin childish figure, her serious heart-shaped face that was plain almost to ___.

Bloodhound

1. Any of a breed of large powerful hounds of European origin remarkable for acuteness of smell.

2. A person keen in pursuit.

Mammy felt that she owned the O’Haras, body and soul, that their secrets were her secrets; and even a hint of a mystery was enough to set her upon the trail as relentlessly as a ___.