Unit 2 Chapter 1

Mrs. Ryles (United States of America)
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  1. heir
    a person entitled by law to inherit the estate of another
    “The tree is yours in fee simple to bargain, sell, and convey or to keep and nurture and eventually hand down to your heirs or assigns forever unto eternity.
  2. chortle
    a soft partly suppressed laugh
    Anvil chortled.
  3. vexed
    troubled persistently especially with petty annoyances
    I hopped up and Anvil arose with a faintly vexed expression.
  4. itinerant
    traveling from place to place to work
    He was a dirty, half crazy, itinerant knickknack peddler.
  5. demented
    affected with madness or insanity
    As I looked at Anvil I felt that in the background I was seeing that demented, bitter father trudging his lonely, vicious way through the world.
  6. contraption
    a small mechanical device or tool
    It was an unwieldy involved contraption of ropes, triggers, and pulleys which took four men to operate.
  7. inadvertently
    without knowledge or intention
    He simply painted the big white circle on the barn floor, had the fork hauled back up to the top, and fastened the trigger around the rung of a stationary ladder eight feet off the floor, where no one could inadvertently pull it.
  8. vindictive
    disposed to seek revenge or intended for revenge
    I gave Anvil one last vindictive look and sprang up the stationary ladder and swung out on the trip rope of the unpredictable hayfork with all my puny might.
  9. commemorate
    call to remembrance
    “Now do you suppose,” he asked, in that fine, free, good humor, “that if I were to offer you a little token to commemorate this occasion you could make a choice?
  10. ancestry
    inherited properties shared with others of your bloodline
    My possession of this tree forges of me a link in this owning ancestry that must go back clear beyond Moses and all the old Bible folks.”
  11. fragment
    a piece broken off or cut off of something else
    He ran a finger back into his jaw to dislodge a fragment of apple from his teeth.
  12. mimicry
    imitative behavior
    “‘Father’” Anvil said with falsetto mimicry.
  13. principal
    main or most important
    He had a club and he told the principal he was going to beat the meanness out of Anvil or beat him to death.
  14. unwieldy
    difficult to use or handle because of size or weight
    It was an unwieldy involved contraption of ropes, triggers, and pulleys which took four men to operate.
  15. pinion
    restrain or bind
    He got down and pinioned my arms with his knees.
  16. callously
    in a callous way
    I didn’t know what he meant by that but the tree was mine and ...now there perched Anvil, callously munching one of my thirteen apples and stowing the rest inside his ragged shirt until it bulged out in ugly lumps.
  17. wrath
    intense anger
    I was angry with my foe: I told it not, my wrath did grow.
  18. deceitful
    intended to deceive
    And I sunned it with smiles, And with soft deceitful wiles.
Created on Sun Jul 21 16:24:28 EDT 2013 (updated Sun Aug 04 23:09:29 EDT 2013)

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