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 ___.

Breach (verb)

A violation in the performance of or a failure to perform an obligation created by a promise, duty, or law without excuse or justification.

“When Mammy returned she would resume her lecture on Scarlett’s ___ of hospitality, and Scarlett felt that she could not endure prating about such a trivial matter when her heart was breaking.”

Forthright

Direct and outspoken; straightforward and honest.

She was as ___ and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound about it, and to the end of her days she would never be able to understand a complexity

Awe

A feeling of reverential respect mixed with fear or wonder.

Scarlett had no ___ of her father and felt him more her contemporary than her sisters, for jumping fences and keeping it a secret from his wife gave him a boyish pride and guilty glee that matched her own pleasure in outwitting Mammy.

Temerity

Excessive confidence or boldness; audacity.

No one would ever have the ___ to think of Gerald O’Hara as a ridiculous little figure.

Vanity

Excessive pride in or admiration of one's own appearance or achievements.

That everyone who met him did discover his kindly heart within five minutes was unknown to him; and his ___ would have suffered tremendously if he had found it out, for he liked to think that when he bawled orders at the top of his voice everyone trembled and obeyed.