Sarah Plain and Tall
Chapter 1 Vocabulary

It was dusk, and the dogs lay beside him on the warm hearthstones.  

1. Hearthstones means Click to select the rocks in the fireplace steps going to a porch stove

2. Dusk means Click to select noon midnight nightfall morning

I turned the bread dough over and over on the marble slab on the kitchen table.

3. Slab means Click to select block spoon table

....he had a terrible holler and a horrid smell.

4. Horrid means Click to select sweet bad perfume

I had gone to bed thinking how wretched he looked.

5. Wretched means Click to select miserable beautiful

And Jack was feisty. "Rascal," mummured Papa, smiling, because no matter what Jack did Papa loved him.

6. Fiesty means Click to select lazy tired comfortable full of energy

7. Rascal means Click to select well behaved good mannered trickster or cheat

I've placed an advertisement in the newspapers.

8. Advertisement means Click to select commercial news story

His wife-to-be is young and energetic.

9. Energetic means Click to select very young active or lively selfish