Vocabulary for Short Story Unit #1

You should be able to (1) spell each word correctly, (2), define each word, and (3) use each word correctly in a sentence.

“The Moustache”: nauseous, lucid, and regally

“The Treasure of Lemon Brown”: impromptu, tentatively, commence, gnarled, ominous

“The Inspiration of Mr. Budd”: conspicuous, garrulous, caprices, countenance, brevity, dubiously, forlorn, precipitately, absconded, eked, coifed

TEST ONE COVERS THE MOUSTACHE, LEMON BROWN, AND MR. BUDD

“Paw-Paw”: ingratitude, curtly

“A Christmas Memory”: prosaic, festooned, suffuse, armada, dilapidated, paraphernalia, sacrilegious, carnage, shorn, sprightly, inaugurating, exhilarates

“The Tell-Tale Heart”: scantlings, waned, sagacity, suppositions, cunning, stealthily

“Mr. Mendelsohn”: permeated, conviction

TEST TWO COVERS PAW-PAW, CHRISTMAS MEMORY, TELL-TALE HEART, AND MR. MENDELSOHN