1. Where the Red Fern Grows Vocabulary

2. Allotted To divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out.

3. Aromatic having an aroma; fragrant or sweet- scented; odoriferous

4. Britches Pants

5. Vocabulary Commotion Noisy distraction

6. Depot A storehouse or warehouse, as a building where freight is deposited. Railroad

7. Dormant. Lying asleep or as if asleep; Inactive

8. Drastic Extremely severe or extensive.

9. Festered to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate to form pus; generate purulent matter; suppurate to rankle, as a feeling of resentment to rankle, as a feeling of resentment

10. Heft To test the weight of by lifting and balancing.

11. Hillbilly A person from a backwoods or other remote area, especially from the mountains of the southern U.S.

12. Muster To gather, summon, rouse.

13. Provisions A supply or stock of something provided.

14. Quavering To shake tremulously; quiver or tremble.

15. Sparsely Thinly scattered or distributed.

16. Squall A sudden, violent gust of wind, often accompanied by rain, snow, or sleet.

17. Foreshadowing to show, indicate, or suggest in advance

18. Quench To slake, satisfy, or allay

19. Desperation desperate recklessness

20. Domain The territory governed by a single ruler

21. a region characterized by a specific feature, type of growth or wildlife a region characterized by a specific feature, type of growth or wildlife

22. Gouge to dig or force out a hole

23. Hampering Hampering to hold back; hinder to hold back; hinder

24. Liniment Liniment a liquid for rubbing on or applying to the skin, as for sprains or bruises for soothing a liquid for rubbing on or applying to the skin, as for sprains or bruises for soothing

25. Mischievous causing annoyance, harm, or trouble

26. Persistence the continuance of an effect after the cause of it has stopped

27. Querying to ask or inquire about

28. Wedge a piece of hard material with two principal faces meeting in a sharply acute angle, for raising, holding, or splitting objects by applying a pounding or driving force, as from a hammer

29. Obstacle something that obstructs or hinders progress

30. Belligerent of warlike character

31. Cinch an easy task ; an easy task ; a certainty

32. Winced to draw back or tense the body, as from pain or from a blow; start; flinch.

33. Nonchalantly coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual coolly unconcerned, indifferent, or unexcited; casual

34. Riffle a rapid, as in a stream. a rapid, as in a stream.

35. Slough an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamp like region. an area of soft, muddy ground; swamp or swamp like region.

36. Salve anything that soothes, mollifies, or relieves. anything that soothes, mollifies, or relieves.

37. Leering sly look sly look

38. Protruding to thrust forward; cause to project to thrust forward; cause to project

39. Disposition natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude natural mental and emotional outlook or mood; characteristic attitude

40. Impulsively characterized by actions based on sudden desires, whims, or inclinations rather than careful thought characterized by actions based on sudden desires, whims, or inclinations rather than careful thought

41. Faltered to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent

42. Verge the edge, rim, or margin of something the edge, rim, or margin of something

43. Feeble physically weak, as from age or sickness; frail. physically weak, as from age or sickness; frail.

44. Foliage the leaves of a plant, collectively; leafage. the leaves of a plant, collectively; leafage.

45. Jugular of or pertaining to the throat or neck; noting or pertaining to any of certain large veins of the neck of or pertaining to the throat or neck; noting or pertaining to any of certain large veins of the neck

46. Lithe bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible bending readily; pliant; limber; supple; flexible

47. Predatory preying upon other organisms for food. preying upon other organisms for food.