| Word | Definition | Sentence |
| balked | stopped or refused to go on | It was down in the bottom of this gully that the hogs _____. |
| flustered | upset and confused | Mama looked a little _____, like she didn't know what to do with me. |
| fretful | complaining; discontented | For days Travis lay in bed acting _____. |
| hurtling | moving with great speed | One buzzard was _____ down at a dive, his ugly head out-stretched, his wings all but shut against his body. |
| mournful | extremely sad | As Travis left to return to the cabin for help, he heard a _____ howl. |
| refuge | shelter | Old Yeller took _____ from the hogs behind a boulder. |
| searing | burning the surface of something | A _____ pain shot up into my body after a slashing tush caught me in the calf of my right leg. |
| slack | weak or loose | I'd heard that if a pup didn't holler when you held him up by the _____ hide of his neck, he was sure to turn out to be a gritty one. |
| squeamish | easily sickened or disgusted | Mama had always been _____ about lizards and snakes and bugs and things. |
| vicious | dangerous; violent | The bar hogs weren't any more _____ than the boars. |
