Frightful's Mountain: Frightful Finds the Enemy–There are Eggs and Trouble

by Jean Craighead George
In the third book of the My Side of the Mountain trilogy, Frightful is on her own in the wilderness, trying to survive without Sam.

Here are links to our lists for the novel: Foreword–Frightful Peregrinates, Frightful Finds the Enemy–There are Eggs and Trouble, The Kids are Heard–A Pal Finds a Pal, Frightful and Oksi Run the Show–Afterword

Here are links to our lists for the My Side of the Mountain trilogy by Jean Craighead George: My Side of the Mountain, On the Far Side of the Mountain, Frightful's Mountain

And here is a link to Julie of the Wolves by Jean Craighead George.
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  1. indicator
    a signal for attracting attention
    Her large, round eyes searched for the indicators that would guide her on her way.
  2. portly
    fairly large
    He was portly and wore a dirty ski jacket.
  3. gait
    a person's manner of walking
    He was dressed in a tan jacket and pants and strode with a gait as free as Sam’s.
  4. utility
    a facility designed to provide a service such as heat
    He grabbed a fallen branch, climbed a boulder under the utility pole, and tried to knock her off the wires.
  5. dislodge
    remove or force from a position previously occupied
    He brushed her, but could not dislodge her.
  6. sear
    become superficially burned (also figurative)
    Smoothing Frightful’s seared feathers, he opened a large pocket in his jacket and placed her in it.
  7. captivity
    the state of being imprisoned
    He had bred the first peregrines in captivity and, using an ancient technique called hacking, had been able to free them to the wild.
  8. pesticide
    a chemical used to kill destructive insects or animals
    First it was DDT and other pesticides that killed the great peregrines, he mused.
  9. flourish
    grow vigorously
    When his land was flourishing, he went back home and married a young woman named Susan.
  10. apprehension
    fearful expectation or anticipation
    He took her to his mountain with some apprehension.
  11. unperturbed
    free from emotional agitation or nervous tension
    Unperturbed, she then stared at Jon Wood.
  12. emanate
    proceed or issue forth, as from a source
    Frightful sensed in Susan the same love that emanated from Sam, Alice, and this man who held her.
  13. acrid
    strong and sharp, as a taste or smell
    The children stared at Frightful, and some said they could smell the acrid scent of her scorched feathers clear at the back of the auditorium.
  14. seep
    pass gradually or leak or as if through small openings
    The owls watched it seep into their homes.
  15. molt
    cast off hair, skin, horn, or feathers
    The breeding season was over, and she was molting. New feathers were replacing the burned ones.
  16. nuptial
    of or relating to a wedding
    Frightful was in her nuptial plumage.
  17. aerie
    the lofty nest of a bird of prey, such as a hawk or eagle
    Every March for ten years he had made this plunge from high above Sam’s mountain to his aerie on the cliff.
  18. rococo
    having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation
    Pairs were nesting in the rococo architecture of the churches and Victorian houses.
  19. tandem
    one behind the other
    She copied his aerial loop-the-loop, then flew in tandem with him down the river.
  20. intolerant
    unwilling to tolerate difference of opinion
    The wildest of all our falcons, the one most intolerant of human beings, has discovered rats.
  21. asset
    a useful or valuable quality
    She will be an enormous asset to Delhi.
  22. demeanor
    the way a person behaves toward other people
    Her feathers, her posture, her demeanor say she’s in wonderful condition.
  23. lapse
    pass into a specified state or condition
    The two friends lapsed into silence.
  24. resin
    a viscous substance obtained from plants or simple molecules
    After eating his porridge, Sam got a bowl he had chipped out of stone and filled it with chunks of pine resin.
  25. rendezvous
    a place where people meet
    Sam’s mountain was their last rendezvous on their trip north.
  26. tribute
    something given or done as an expression of esteem
    Clear of the last twigs, she trilled a soft tribute to wings and flight, and dove freestyle down the mountain to the river.
  27. telltale
    disclosing unintentionally
    Finding no telltale marks of an aerie on the bridge, Sam walked up Elm Street and stopped in the library to get a book on farming wild edible plants.
  28. mottled
    having spots or patches of color
    Sitting down, the wind from the river brushing her face, she laid a pale cream-and-pink egg. It was mottled with rich red-and-brown splotches.
  29. amble
    walk leisurely
    “It ought to work,” he said, and ambled toward the mountain side of the bridge.
  30. confiscate
    take temporary possession of a security by legal authority
    A little less than a year ago Sam had thought Leon Longbridge was the man who had confiscated Frightful and taken her from him.
  31. culprit
    someone or something responsible for harm or wrongdoing
    The culprit was a falcon thief named Bate.
  32. expound
    add details to clarify an idea
    Leon’s favorite bird was the peregrine falcon, and last summer when a boy named Jose Cruz and a girl named Molly came to his office to ask about peregrine falcons, he had expounded with beautiful stories about their courage and swiftness.
  33. mayhem
    violent and needless disturbance
    When two more hammers joined the mayhem, she came out of her incubation trance.
  34. din
    a loud, harsh, or strident noise
    Despite the din, she slipped into the trance of incubation, this time more deeply than before.
  35. satiated
    supplied, especially fed, to satisfaction
    Frightful took the food from him until she was satiated.
Created on Mon Aug 03 20:20:35 EDT 2015 (updated Tue Sep 11 10:38:03 EDT 2018)

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