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Island of the Blue Dolphins

Vocabulary Words

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Chapter 1

Chapter 2

Chapter 3

Chapter 4

ravine

canyon

cove

spearhead

ornament

league

carcasses

whirring

mesa

cormorant

kelp

warrior

 

tide

pelts

 

 

glistening

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 5

Chapter 6

Chapter 7

Chapter 8

tunas

shrouded

awl

slunk

portioned

meal

anchored

gorged

abalone

 

 

lair

 

 

 

 

Chapter 9

Chapter 10

Chapter 11

Chapter 12

headland

dusk

shelter

gnawed

stunted

chafting

brackish

gruel

trinkets

omen

clamor

 

 

 

dunes

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 13

Chapter 14

Chapter 15

Chapter 16

forbade

ancestor

shaft

abandoned

wadding

stalking

poisonous

plank

 

venture

speared

pitch

 

pelican

quivering

spit

 

 

binding

roost

 

 

paces

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 17

Chapter 18

Chapter 19

Chapter 20

haunches

lupine

streaked

shimmering

foreleg

stunted

scallops

 

crouching

perching

reef

 

 

singed

crevice

 

 

 

suckers

 

 

 

dyeing

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 21

Chapter 22

Chapter 23

    

Chapter 24

 

sniffing

gesture

reproachfully

beakful

glossier

circlet

herb

    

specked

 

sprawled

deserted

teetering

fledging

yucca

prow

 

hobble

giddy

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 25

Chapter 26

Chapter 27

Chapter 28

dawn

notched

rumbling

plank

follow

snares

slope

horizon

seized

frisk

crest

 

 

howled

vanquished

 

 

baited

current

 

 

thong

 

 

 

 

 

 

Chapter 29

 

 

 

gesture

 

 

 

waded

 

 

 

spring

 

 

 

Vocabulary for Hatchet

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Chapter 1 Chapters 2 Chapters 3
consuming turbulence to slow dramatically
drone C.P.R. muck
slewed ultimately fly into a tree spiraling
vibration engine cowling
rudder altimeter  
lurched transmitter  
lashed transmission  
riveted belt loop altitude  
audible procedure  
Chapters 4 Chapters 5 Chapters 6
massively swollen murky pulverized
hordes of mosquitoes courses pouch
viciously tatters  
hummocks
Chapters 7 Chapters 8 Chapters 9
abdomen quills exasperation
wuffling segment repositioned
welted scootched  
  imbedded  
Chapters 10 Chapters 11 Chapters 12
smoke eddied comprised lunging
regulate bluff telegraphed his motion
dormant snaggly pine persistent
Chapters 13 Chapters 14 Chapters 15
shallows sulfurous days folded
relaxed tension on spear mesh pitchy stump
hissing madness   streamline
"clouddown"   stabilize
shaft    
Chapters 16 Chapters 17 Chapters 18
retrived incessant stabilizer
momentarily virtually frenzied
  pronounced triggers
    fuselage
    surging
Chapters 19 Epilogue  
Emergency Transmitter consumed  
butane lighter gut cherries – choke cherries  
encased hazelnuts  
  foolbirds – ruffed grouse