| Word |
Definition |
Sentence |
| aggravating | annoying; irritating | Jumper was full of a lot of pesky, _____ mule tricks, but when you called on him to move a load, he'd move it or bust something. |
| hackles | hair along the back of neck and shoulders | Old Yeller's _____ stood up in a ragged ridge along the back of his neck and shoulders. |
| hideous | extremely ugly | The sounds of the wolves trying to get to the bull were _____. |
| pounce | spring; jump on | Now and then the pup would get close enough to _____ on the rope. |
| reeled | swayed and staggered | The roan bull _____ like he couldn't see where he was going. |
| rooted | dug with one's nose into the ground | When the bull fell, he _____ and just lay there, moaning, too weak to try to get up again. |
| scorching | burning | The heat and the stench of burnt hair and _____ hide drove us back. |
| wash | dry bed of a stream | I hid behind a turkey-pear bush on the far side of the _____. |
| wavered | flickered | A little flame started, _____ for a moment, then bloomed suddenly and leaped high with a roar. |
| wheeling | turning around quickly | I caught my first glimpse of the screaming battle that came_____ into the circle of light. |
