Wednesday, 1/28/04 -- Eighth Grade Go over vocabulary
homework.
Vocabulary Pretest. malinger, intimate, progeny, conciliate,
bode, pent, vicarious, docile You will use words more than once.
Buck was ___________ for the men he respected, but vicious
with those who mistreated him.
To Buck, "a man with a club was a lawgiver, a master to be
obeyed, though not necessarily _____________(ed)."
His _______ anger burst forth like water from a broken dam.
"Straight at the man he launched his 140 pounds of fury,
surcharged with the _______ passion of two days and nights.
There was no use for _________(ing) dogs in the Yukon. A
dog had to pull his weight, so to speak.
Buck _________(ed) his displeasure at being leashed by growling.
"...the wages of a gardener's helper do not lap over the
needs of a wife and numerous ______."
Reading romance novels gave the lonely old woman a ___________
thrill.
"...during those two days and nights of torment, he accumulated
a fund of wrath that ________(ed) ill for whoever first fell afoul of him."
"...other dogs came, in crates and at the ends of ropes,
some _______(ly), and some raging and roaring as he had come."