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Cheap
Where the Red Fern Grows
Vocabulary Words
Mrs. Tate
Language Arts
• (adj.) costing very little
• Prices were cheap; fifteen cents for a large
opossum hide. (p. 248)
• Synonym: low cost, reasonable
• Antonyms: expensive, costly
Depot
Determination
• (n.) a railroad station
• They’ll come as far as the depot in
Tahlequah. (p. 253)
• (n.) the firm intention to accomplish a goal
• I knew He had surely helped; for He had
given me the heart, courage, and
determination. (p. 249)
• Synonym: dedication
• Antonym: fear
Provisions
Urgency
• (n.) necessary supplies, especially food
• At the outskirts of town, I hid my flour
sack and provisions. (p. 255)
• (n.) the need to do something quickly
• They seemed to sense the urgency in my
voice and always bought my wares. (p.
248)
• Synonym: seriousness
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Wares
Adoration
• (n.) items for sale
• They seemed to sense the urgency in my
voice and always bought my wares. (p.
248)
• Synonym: goods
• (n.) deep feelings of love
• I was well repaid by the love and
adoration I saw in the wide blue eyes of
my three little sisters. (p. 252)
• Synonym: admiration, devotion
• Antonym: disregard, disrespect
Sorghum
Mob
• (n.) a type of grass, the juice of which is
used to make a sweet syrup
• The boys and girls were about my age,
and were as thick as flies around a
sorghum mill. (p. 258)
• (n.) a large, disorderly group
• He ran back to the mob. I saw him
pointing at me and talking to several boys.
(p. 260)
• Synonym: crowd, gang
• Antonym: individual
Muster
• (n.) gather up; find
• He looked friendly enough but I still
couldn’t muster up enough courage to go
in. (p. 261)
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