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The Beaded Moccasins
by Lynda Durrant

Vocabulary is to be looked up before the chapter is read

Chapter 1
carding boards
dung
borne
multitude
motes
musket
vexed
steeples
perchance
Susquehanna
westering

Chapter 2
chemise
flounce
frothy
flummoxed
churn
bounty
jagged
tomahawk
flint
smallpox

Chapter 3
commence
weary
gorge
heartsore
thrash
midday
nettles
cloyed
stake

Chapter 4
wigwam
grubby
brazen
Union Jack
ravaged
brimming

Chapter 5
pastry
smote
drainage
cornmeal
crescents
moccasins

Chapter 6
glimmer
frontier
parchment
dangle
foraged
simmer
lapping

Chapter 7
domain
hedgerows
dwelling
tusks
sleet
inward
cobblers (not shoemakers)
nibble
holler
membrane

Chapter 8
content
molten
flourish (noun)
sinew
Handel
pianoforte
dainty
flicker

Chapter 9
sequin
treaty
pemmican
flapjacks
impassive
grudging
streamlets
wring
plovers
fingerlings
coverlet
meek
blur

Chapter 10
sapling
thrive
clan
tanager
nestled
grimy
pelt
sideboard
savage
clutch (verb)

Chapter 11
daybreak
wane
slope
settlement
gush
lynx
Milky Way
scolds

Chapter 12
ssassafras
dogwood
tunic
reckon
parasol
acquire
ambassador
jabber
candelabrum
keen
goblet
saltcellar

Chapter 13
shrill
anxious
submerged
unrelenting
deluge

Chapter 14
samp
storehouse
venison
diminished
yearn
aggrieved
martyr
tyrant
squabbles
vexing
corncrib
legacy