Unit 1: Week 3

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  1. lair
    the place where a wild animal lives
    The first thing I found, which I had forgotten, was that this place was near the wild dogs’ lair.
  2. ravine
    a deep narrow steep-sided valley
    Besides it was much easier to reach, since it came from the side of a hill and not from a ravine as the other one did.
  3. shellfish
    meat of edible aquatic invertebrate with a shell
    While I was building the fence and the house, I ate shellfish and perch while I cooked on a flat rock.
  4. gnaw
    bite or chew on with the teeth
    I would have used sinew to bind the ribs together, for this is stronger than kelp, but wild animals like it and soon would have gnawed the fence down.
  5. headland
    a natural elevation
    There were two such places on the island—one on the headland and the other less than a league to the west.
  6. kelp
    large brown seaweeds having fluted leathery fronds
    Between them I wove many strands of bull kelp, which shrinks as it dries and pulls very tight.
  7. sinew
    a band of tissue connecting a muscle to its bony attachment
    I would have used sinew to bind the ribs together, for this is stronger than kelp, but wild animals like it and soon would have gnawed the fence down.
  8. clamor
    a loud, harsh, or strident noise
    At dawn when the clamor started again I left and went back to the headland.
  9. scarce
    deficient in quantity or number compared with the demand
    The house took longer to build than the fence because it rained many days and because the wood I needed was scarce.
  10. theme
    a unifying idea that is a recurrent element in literary work
    The theme is the underlying meaning of a story.
  11. setting
    the context and environment in which something is situated
    The setting is where and when the story takes place.
  12. infer
    reason by deduction; establish by deduction
    When you infer, you combine your background knowledge with evidence in the text to come up with an idea about what the author is trying to present.
Created on Thu Jul 16 12:26:20 EDT 2020 (updated Fri Jul 17 16:41:19 EDT 2020)

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