1. By: Ann Hanlon Cummings, Sydney Hendryx, and Mary Mac Estes
Vocabulary
By: Ann Hanlon Cummings, Sydney Hendryx, and Mary Mac Estes

2. Toil
To work extremely hard or incessantly

3. Progeny
A descendant or descendants of a person

4. Realm
A kingdom

5. Futilely Pointless or useless
Sentence: She sighed at the futile thoughts.

6. Ebbed
To recede

7. Calamity
An event causing great and often sudden damage or distress

8. Oppressed
To weigh down

9. Reign
Hold royal office; rule as king or queen

10. Uncouth
A person lacking good manners, refinement, or grace

11. Primordial
Excising at or from the beginning

12. Traces
Dave was sad when he got cut out of the traces.

13. Belligerent
Hostile and aggressive

14. Forlorn
Pitifully sad and abandoned or lonely

15. Gee-pole
A sturdy pole, lashed to the side of a sled, and used for steering and support

16. Ravenous
Extremely hungry

17. Trifle
A thing of little value or importance

18. Egotistical
Excessively conceded or absorbed in oneself, self-centered

19. Fiend
An evil spirit or demon

20. Conciliate
Stop someone from being angry or discontented

21. Wheeler
A dog harnessed next to the sled

22. Yukon
A river in northwestern north America that rises in Yukon territory in north western Canada and flows west for 1,870 miles through central Alaska to the Bering sea

23. Ignominiously
Deserving or causing public disgrace or shame

24. Arduous
Involving or requiring difficulty

25. Fastidiousness
Very attentive to and concerned about accuracy and detail
Sentences: You are so fastidious about everything.

26. Heredity
The passing on of physical or mental characteristics genetically from one generation to another

27. Intimated
Imply or hint

28. Klondike
A tributary of the Yukon River, in Yukon Territory, northwestern Canada, that rises in the Ogilvie Mountains and flows west for 100 miles (160 km) to join the Yukon at Dawson. It gave its name to the surrounding Region, which became famous when gold was found in nearby Bonanza Creek in 1896.

29. Score
A group or set of 20 or about 20

30. Swarthy
Dark skinned
Sentence: His complexion was swarthy.

31. Artesian Well
A well drilled through impermeable rock into strata where water is under enough pressure to force it to the surface without pumping