Across Five Aprils's vocabulary

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ACROSS FIVE APRILS by Irene Hunt

VOCABULARY

Chapters
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11

DICTIONARY SKILLS Chapters 1-5 Chapter 6

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Define 10 words from Chapter 1

Chapter 1	Page		Chapter 1	Page		Chapter 1	Page

acknowledging	2		imminence	6		taunting	12
aloofness	18		insufficient	4		tension	20
ancient	9		intervened	12		thongs	20
anxious	20		loam	15		triumph	9
attributes	17		melancholy	6		trudged	14
bound	7		monotonous	13		typhoid fever	4
britches	6		obvious	6		unthinkable	5
buoyancy	20		occasional	16		vaguely	6
caress	6		overwhelmed	6		weariness	6
clambering	14		paralysis	2
clasping	21		paternal	20
comeuppance	7		patient	16
companionship	18		peculiar	17
compelling	2		penetrate	5
compliment	8		perplexities	13
confederate	9		persecuted	12
confidence	13		ponder	8
consequences	13		prairies	5
conviction	9		preoccupation	20
crock	15		preparations	3
defiance	12		prosperous	12
despised	10		rampaging	17
disappeared	6		recognized	5
dissipate	12		reservations	20
earnestly	16		reverberations	2
evidenced	6		routine	22
exasperated	7		satisfaction	10
folly	7		scriptures	8
formalities	5		seceding	9
fragments	14		shiftless	10
frustration	5		solemn	17
furrow	2		squirmed	7
generations	4		stooped	8
gestures	14		straightened	7
glacier	15		studious	5
grave (emotion)	3		suspicion	12
grime	15		sympathies	12
half-acre	7		tariffs	9

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Define 10 words from Chapter 2
Define 12 words from Chapter 3

Chapter 2	Page	Chapter 3	Page	Chapter 3	Page

arrogant	25	abide	37	innocence	42
assailant	28	abruptly	45	isolation	35
authoritative	29	acquainted	41	loft	38
clutch	32	admiration	38	mob	36
congratulations	32	aggression	38	nullification	40
constrained	29	arrogance	44	oratory	35
corn shuck	33	atmosphere	36	perplexity	43
exhausted	30	audible	43	pled	35
expression	29	awed	40	prestige	35
fatigue	33	bayonet	42	prophesies	36
hastily	32	bewildered	36	pursuit	38
hedged	26	blaze	39	quavering	35
hesitated	26	bleak	41	rallies	36
imaginary	28	blithely	41	reassurance	36
industrialist	25	boasted	36	region	40
inevitable	24	bounded	42	reinforcements	37
intention	31	brilliant	38	resolve	36
interference	25	bronzed	36	scarce	40
interrupted	29	bunting	35	silhouette	42
justify	26	cause	35	somber	42
lapse	23	chafed	36	sorrowful	37
loom	26	characterized	36	spanned	42
militia	32	clutch	40	spectacle	36
opponent	28	collapse	42	staggering	42
provisions	31	concealed	41	succession	35
puny	25	confusion	38	swayed	42
reference	29	dedicated	37	tedium	35
responded	32	denounced	37	territories	40
seething	30	desolate	40	trickle	43
sloshed	26	eloquence	35	tykes	38
spectators	32	emancipator	37	veterans	35
strident	32	endure	45	virtue	35
subsided	28	enthusiastic	35	wastrel	41
tumult	27	exceptional	35	whim	41
turmoil	28	fascination	38	wrath	35
veered	29	fiasco	36	yearned	41
vehement	28	glorious	35
winced	32	indifferent	41

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Define 15 words from Chapter 4
Define 15 words from Chapter 5
Define 18 words from Chapter 6

Chapter 4	Page	Chapter 5	Page	Chapter 6	Page

admonitions	53	assurance	75	dissipated	104
allusion	56	belligerently	80	appreciative	105
annex	54	calico	70	canopy	107
Armistice	48	caustically	82	earnestly	106
attainments	63	clinches	73	fervent	104
balefully	63	decisive	77	forerunner	109
bundled	53	desolate	74	frailty	99
chafing	55	exhilarated	71	furrow	99
clinched	59	extravagance	76	glistening	105
commenced	62	floundered	88	gullibility	113
comrades	49	gumption	70	imposed	102
constriction	63	inconspicuous	80	malice	114
despairing	47	indistinct	68	mingled	101
dignity	54	inevitably	71	plagued	109
endured	54	invariably	71	raucous	111
envy	52	keener	93	tranquil	104
maneuvering	64	monotony	87	typhoid	104
mimicry	62	pallor	93	ultimatum	103
obligations	55	pangs	68	ungraciously	108
paisley	54	parcels	81
parson	56	pranced	71
patter	64	precariously	75
plunged	53	predominantly	87
pompous	63	resembled	67
preserves	62	self-indulgence	67
prospect	52	surmounted	75
rough-hewn	62	tacit	91
savored	63	vague	88
skepticism	65	wearily	93
soberly	53
stern	56
stimulant	48
swayed	63
tyrannical	56
trudged	53
twinge	56
vicious	61
wailed	64

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Define 20 words from Chapter 7
Define 20 words from Chapter 8
Define 25 words from Chapter 9

Chapter 7	Page	Chapter 8	Page	Chapter 9	Page

baubles	123	anguish	134	abide	156
blustered	126	appalling	137	abolitionist	143
brooding	123	bluster	129	ancestral	145
defiled	118	casualties	138	antagonized	146
demoted	124	churn	132	audible	150
devoted	116	clinch	130	comparative	143
dispel	116	contradict	134	compassion	161
embellished	124	despair	137	compatriots	162
enfeebled	125	dignity	135	contempt	142
entrench	125	disillusioned	139	convulsive	152
essence	126	dissuaded	137	Copperheads	143
hindquarters	124	exasperation	134	credence	148
hoax	125	extended	132	curt	159
implements	119	faltered	131	dense	146
ineffectual	125	foreboding	137	deserter	141
inept	125	genially	134	desperate	141
integrity	118	ghastly	136	diction	145
misery	125	grim	129	dignity	158
niche	123	hesitancy	137	despair	148
notation	121	hindsight	136	dysentery	142
overtones	125	hoarded	135	earnestness	162
persistent	126	ignorant	134	erred	161
plaudits	119	inevitably	131	evidently	146
ridicule	123	intention	130	forays	141
scuttling	119	keener	137	forestall	159
shrill	125	mannerism	134	gangrenous	142
squabbling	122	obscurity	136	gnawed	142
subsequent	116	travail	138	grimace	152
tenacious	124	triumphs	130	harsh	147
		wearily	138	haunch	151
				heed	143
				impudent	159
				inscription	159
				interminable	159
				intrude	161
				loomed	153
				magnitude	159
				meddled	160
				preceded	148

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Define 20 words for Chapter 10
Define 20 words for Chapter 11

Chapter 9	Page	Chapter 10	Page	Chapter 11	Page

preoccupation	154	arrogant	163	advent	185
reiterate	159	acquire	170	affront	188
ridicule	146	admiration	164	amnesty	182
ruffians	153	agonizing	167	annals	182
scorned	153	besieged	166	blundering	185
seize	156	bluffs	166	chaotic	177
shunned	160	campaigns	165	clashed	190
staunch	156	conspiracy	168	clemency	182
sternly	146	contemptuous	163	compensation	186
sufficient	141	contradictory	167	complicity	179
tether	147	delirium	169	corruption	185
tolerable	150	dreary	172	coupled	188
tremendous	147	egotism	165	crumble	187
triumphant	155	enlivened	169	cynically	185
typhus	142	fiece	171	decisive	185
vex	155	fortification	166	degradation	183
vivid	148	gangrenous	168	deluded	183
		gloom	164	desolation	177
		humility	165	detachment	180
		incoherent	167	determination	186
		inept	166	detractors	183
		ironclads	166	dissolution	186
		legend	167	err	183
		malaria	165	evidently	190
		maneuvered	167	expectantly	185
		mired	166	extremities	182
		monotonous	169	folly	189
		onslaught	164	gallant	188
		pandemonium	168	idolized	186
		presumption	165	inevitable	182
		probability	164	invective	184
		pursue	167	jubilation	179
		realization	164	narrative	179
		resentment	171	nomination	187
		seize	167	obscurity	183
		speculation	166	paeans	188
		spinster	168	perponderance	189
		stead	167	plurality	189
		vague	166	proclamation	182

Chapter 11	Page

prominence	178
promotion	180
pronouncement	183
provender	179
radical	188
regiments	190
relegated	183
rhetorically	185
rumor	189
scaled	181
slopes	179
sole	185
stern	190
tenacity	186
terrain	178
treason	183
triumph	183
utterances	182
vicious	184
vindictiveness	182
vivid	179

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