Vocabulary of One Hundred Good short stories.
Match the word with the correct meaning. Write the number of the word in the space given.
A tent in the Snow
1. Approaching A person who feels that nobody is close or near, very alone ___5__
2. Agony Trying to find or discover new places __10__
3. Amputated Place where something is stored ______
4. attempt Something important and valuable ______
5. Loneliest Something strange, secret and wonderful ______
6. Enormous A violent snowstorm with winds blowing at a minimum speed of 35 miles (56 kilometers) per hour and visibility of less than one-quarter mile (400 meters) for three hour _____
7. Naval Go on doing something without giving up or stopping _____
8. Lounging A doctor cuts off a limb like an arm, hand, leg or finger _____
9. Muffled Very big _____
10. Exploration A mound of stones erected as a memorial or marker. _____
11. Determined Land that is empty, nothing grows there. _____
12. cairn To cause strain, anxiety, stress, very upset _____
13. Lap Not very strong, weak _____
14. Fortnight To put an end to, stop _____
15. Depot To disappear, not be there anymore _____
16. Companions To come nearer, when something comes to you _____
17. Vast You will do something _____
18. Wasteland To move or act in a lazy, relaxed _____
19. Haul Fourteen days, two weeks _____
20. Precious Bigger than enourmous _____
21. Frostbite Person who feels pain or distress _____
22. Sufferer Whisper or mumble so that you can not be heard _____
23. Meagre To cause to be later _____
24. Distressing In pain, feel pain _____
25. Mysterious Working in and on ships, army of the sea _____
26. Shortages To try and do something _____
27. Feeble To wrap up with a blanket _____
28. Desert part of journey, last part of trip _____
29. Murmured Friends _____
30. Blizzard Pull _____
31. Ceased To have little of something _____
32. Discomfort Not enough, you short some _____
33. Delayed Body parts damaged by freezing _____
34. Vanished To leave someone without help _____
35. relentlessly To be uncomfortable _____
Better than games
1. Haunt Animal known as a ratel _____
2. Preparatory Fighting strong and with much energy _____
3. Rambles To move suddenly and fast _____
4. preferred To walk around pleasantly for pleasure _____
5. Badger Place often visited _____
6. Stealthily School that prepares you for college _____
7. Dart Acting quietly and secretly, softly _____
8. Thrust choosing the thing you like more _____
9. Vigorously to push or drive quickly _____
10. Captor Someone that keeps you safe _____
11. Exciting A safe place _____
12. Fawn A young deer _____
13. Contentedly Someone that keeps you locked up _____
14. Accept To be nervous _____
15. Attitude To take risks and chances that may be dangerous _____
16. Anxious Caring for nature and animals _____
17. Protector To take in a place or country that does not belong to you _____
18. preserve To look after something to make sure it will last _____
19. Reckless To agree that something must be that way _____
20. Naturalists How you feel about something _____
21. Sanctuary To be happy, something interesting _____
22. invasion To be very happy and satisfied with your life _____
The captain who kept quiet
1. Stationed Something that is not straight but tilted _____
2. Assist A little boat _____
3. Distress Almost without hope, desperate _____
4. Tilted Twisted and tangled _____
5. Angle Process of adding, more _____
6. Pounding In trouble _____
7. Swamped Raft that stays on water _____
8. Float System of ropes and chains on a ship _____
9. Gale Acting fast, crazy with extreme haste _____
10. Cutter A sheet of writing or printing paper measuring approximately
13 by 16 inches _____
11. Wretched A stopping place for a ship, place where it stays _____
12. Exhausted To strike repeatedly and with force _____
13. Rigging Very terrible condition _____
14. Keel A device that keeps a person floating on water _____
15. Despairingly Frame or body of a ship _____
16. Lifebuoy To help _____
17. Grim To fall to the side, skew, one part up _____
18. Frenzied To be covered completely _____
19. Chugged Very strong stormy wind _____
20. Fouled Very, very tired _____
21. Hull The centre part of a ship that keeps the two halves together _____
22. Confounded Almost no hope, dark, sinister _____
23. Foolscap Sound a diesel engine makes _____
24. Recommended To become confused _____
25. Addition To praise and say how good someone was _____