Native American Vocab

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 succesfully

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 inflames 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 its body

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