Unit 3 - Native American

Tremendous

very great in amount, scale, or intensity

Frantically

In a hurried, excited, or disorganized manner

Devious

Using deceit (dishonesty) or trickery to achieve ones goals

Contend

struggle or go against another

Pliable

easily bent or influenced; flexible

Contentment

a state of satisfaction

Encampment

a gathering of temporary housing such as tents

Thunderous

Very loud, powerful, or intense

Muskrat

a large semiaquatic north american rodent with a musky smell, valued for its fur

Briars

and 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 peice of flint, especially as flaked or ground in ancient times to form a tool or weapon. Also used to spark fire

Delicacy

a choice or expensive food

Mutilate

inflict serious damage on

clod

a lump of earth or clay

quiver

an archers portable case for holding arrows

vanquish

defeat thoroughly

succumb

die from the effect of a disease or injury

reign

hold office like that of a king or queen

domain

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

boil

an inflamed pus-filled swelling on the skin, cause typically by the infection of hair follicle

rumbling

a continuous deep, resonant sound

scold

to express disapproval angrily

marrow

a soft fatty substance in the cavities of bones, in which blood cells are produced

astonish

greatly surprised or impressed; amazed