Native American Unit Vocabulary

Vocabulary flashcards covering key terms, parts of speech, and definitions from the Native American unit literature readings, including 'The World on Turtle's Back'.

Tremendous

Very great in amount, scale, or intensity

Frantically

In a hurried, excited, or disorganized manner

Endurance

To withstand a difficult situation without surrendering

Devious

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

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 does not or may not extend or pass, or becomes impossible

Clod

A lump of earth or clay

Quiver

An archer's portable case for holding arrows

Quarrel

A heated argument or disagreement

Accused

Claim that someone has done something wrong

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 infection 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 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