NAL Vocab

Tremendous

Very great in amount, scale. or intensity

Frantically

In a hurried manner

Endurance

To withstand a difficult situation without surrendering

Devious

Using deceit or trickery to achieve one’s goal

Contended

Struggle or go against another

Orderly

Neatly or methodically arranged

Carnivorous

A meat eater

Pliable

Easily bent or influenced ; flexible

Contentment

A state of satisfaction

Mischief

Playful misbehavior or troublemaking

Encampment

A gathering of temporary housing such as tents

Thunderous

Very loud, powerful, or intense

Delicacies

A choice or expensive food

Mutilated

inflict serious damage on

Limits

A point or level beyond which something doesn’t or may not extend or pass or becomes impossible

Clod

A lump of earth or clay

Quiver

An archers portable case for holding arrows

Quarrel

A heated argument or disagreement

Accomplish

Achieve or complete successfully

Vanquish

Defeat thoroughly

Succumb

Die from the effect of a disease or injury

Reigns

Hold office like that of a king or queen

Domain

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

Boils

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

Rumbling

A continuous deep, resonant sound

Scolded

To express disapproval angrily

Muskrat

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

Squash

An edible gourd, the flesh of which may be cooked and eaten as a vegetable

Weasel

A small, slender, carnivorous mammal

Porcupine

A large rodent with defensive spines or quills on the body and tail

Briars

Any of a number of prickly scrambling shrubs

Baneberry

The bitter, typically poisonous berry of the baneberry plant

Dogberry

A riot 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

Accused

Claim that someone has done something wrong