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The Blood-Red Night
Great Peshtigo Fire 1871
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| abandon | to leave forver |
| brush | small trees and shrubs |
| charred | burned |
| flammable | likely to catch fire |
| inferno | a raging fire or place of intense heat |
| marsh | an area of wet low land |
| parched | very dried out or thirsty |
| sawmill | a place where people use machines to saw logs into lumber |
| smoldering | to burn and smoke slowly, usually with no flames |
| narrative nonfiction | factual information presented as an exciting story. |