Vocabulary
Toil
• To work extremely hard or incessantly
Progeny
• A descendant or descendants of a person
Realm
• A kingdom
Futilely
• Pointless or useless
Sentence: She sighed at the futile thoughts.
Ebbed
• To recede
Calamity
• An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress
Oppressed
• To weigh down
Reign
• Hold royal office; rule as king or queen
Uncouth
• A person lacking good manners, refinement, or grace
Primordial
• Excising at or from the beginning
Traces
Dave was sad when
he got cut out of the
traces.
Belligerent
• Hostile and aggressive
Forlorn
• Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely
Gee-pole
• A sturdy pole, lashed to the side of a sled, and used for steering and
support
Ravenous
• Extremely hungry
Trifle
• A thing of little value or importance
Egotistical
• Excessively conceded or absorbed in oneself, self-centered
Fiend
• An evil spirit or demon
Conciliate
• Stop someone from being angry or discontented
Wheeler
• A dog harnessed next to the sled
Yukon
• A river in northwestern north America that rises in Yukon territory in
north western Canada and flows west for 1,870 miles through central
Alaska to the Bering sea
Ignominiously
• Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame
Arduous
• Involving or requiring difficulty
Fastidiousness
• Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail
Sentences: You are so fastidious about everything.
Heredity
• The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from
one generation to another
Intimated
• Imply or hint
Klondike
• A tributary of the Yukon River, in Yukon Territory, northwestern
Canada, that rises in the Ogilvie Mountains and flows west for 100
miles (160 km) to join the Yukon at Dawson. It gave its name to the
surrounding Region, which became famous when gold was found in
nearby Bonanza Creek in 1896.
Score
• A group or set of 20 or about 20
Swarthy
• Dark skinned
Sentence: His complexion was swarthy.
Artesian Well
• A well drilled through impermeable rock into strata where water is
under enough pressure to force it to the surface without pumping