Robert Newton Peck's A Day No Pigs Would Die

Michael F.
Some of the most challenging vocabulary words from Peck's A Day No Pigs Would Die
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  1. archangel
    a spiritual at the highest rank in the celestial hierarchy
  2. astir
    on the move
  3. boar
    a male hog
  4. bracken
    large coarse fern often several feet high
  5. capstan
    a windlass rotated in a horizontal plane around a vertical axis; used on ships for weighing anchor or raising heavy sails
  6. carcass
    the dead body of an animal
  7. comely
    according with custom or propriety
  8. crowbar
    a heavy iron lever with one end forged into a wedge
  9. curdle
    go bad or sour
  10. dapple
    a small contrasting part of something
  11. desecrate
    violate the sacred character of a place or language
  12. farrow
    the production of a litter of pigs
  13. fester
    generate pus
  14. frill
    a strip of pleated material used as a decoration or a trim
  15. geld
    cut off the testicles (of male animals such as horses)
  16. gelding
    castrated male horse
  17. goiter
    enlarged thyroid gland, often from iodine deficiency
  18. gullet
    the passage between the pharynx and the stomach
  19. gumption
    fortitude and determination
  20. hanker
    desire strongly or persistently
  21. heave
    lift or elevate
  22. litter
    rubbish carelessly dropped or left about
  23. mirthful
    full of or showing high-spirited merriment
  24. mite
    small arachnid that infests animals, plants, or stored foods
  25. noun
    a content word referring to a person, place, thing or action
  26. ornery
    having a difficult and contrary disposition
  27. passel
    a large number or amount
  28. purchase
    acquire by means of a financial transaction
  29. quern
    a primitive stone mill for grinding corn by hand
  30. rabies
    an acute viral disease transmitted by animal bites
  31. render
    give or supply
  32. rile
    disturb, especially by minor irritations
  33. runt
    disparaging terms for small people
  34. scrawny
    being very thin
  35. sire
    the male parent of an animal, especially a domestic animal
  36. sow
    place seeds in or on the ground for future growth
  37. stone
    a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
  38. stud
    an upright in house framing
  39. sumac
    a shrub or tree of the genus Rhus
  40. tomfoolery
    silly or senseless behavior
  41. tribulation
    an annoying or frustrating or catastrophic event
  42. udder
    mammary gland of bovids (cows and sheep and goats)
  43. yoke
    a wooden frame across the shoulders for carrying buckets
  44. yonder
    distant but within sight
Created on Fri Feb 05 14:37:30 EST 2010 (updated Fri Feb 05 14:37:59 EST 2010)

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