Ms. Mitchell
Sophomore CP
Vocabulary Unit 9
Vocabulary from Huckleberry Finn
a) definition
b) pronunciation
c) sample sentence
1) Victual
a. A source of materials to nourish the body
b. VIT l
c. “When you got to the table you couldn’t go right to eating, but you had
to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over
the victuals.
2) Speculate
a. Reflect deeply on a subject
b. SPEK yuhl leyt
c. As their journey progresses, Huck speculates on the whether or not he
should turn Jim in as a runaway slave.
3) Meddle
a. Intrude on other people’s affairs or business; interfere unwantedly
b. MED l
c. Huck and Jim are on the run so it would be dangerous to have
strangers try to meddle in their affairs.
4) Rustle
a. Make a dry crackling sound
b. RUHS uhl
c. “The stars were shining and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so
mournful...”
5) Delirium
a. A usually brief state of excitement and mental confusion often
accompanied by hallucinations
b. dih LEER ee uhm
c. After supper Pap took the jug, and said he had enough whisky there
for two drunks and one delirium tremens.”
6) Carcass
a. The dead body of an animal, especially one slaughtered and dressed
for food
b. KAHR kuhs
c. “And if anybody…told the secrets, he must have his throat cut and
then have his carcass burnt up and the ashes scattered all around…”
Ms. Mitchell
Sophomore CP
7) Gaudy
a. Tasteless, showy
b. GAW dee
c. “I read considerable to Jim about kings and dukes and earls and such,
and how gaudy they dressed, and how much style they put on...”
8) Contrive
a. Make or work out a plan for; devise
b. kuhn TRAHYV
c. “Why I spotted you for a boy when you was threading the needle; and
I contrived the other things just to make certain.”
9) Scour
a. Rub hard or scrub
b. SKOU er
c. She scoured the skillet after finding out her young son had used it to
collect and store worms for his fishing trip.
10) Abreast
a. Alongside each other, facing in the same direction
b. UH brest
c. “It kept a-coming, and when it was abreast of me I see there warn’t
but one man it it.”
11) Gust
a. A strong current of air.
b. GUHST
c. The gusts of air knocked over my recycling bin and littered the street
with all the plastic bottles and newspapers I had so carefully put
aside.
12) Infernal
a. Characteristic of resembling Hell.
b. in FUR nl
c. When forced to remain locked in a small cabin with his abusive father,
Huck could feel his circumstances were infernal.
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