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	My Digital Vocabulary Glossary
Source	Word	How it was used in the book.	What the dictionary says.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	multitude	Beyond the protective fencing of the forest, vast farming fields, worked by a multitude of sharecropping families, covered two thirds of a ten-square-mile plantation.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	pensively	I let the matter drop and trudged along in moody silence, my brothers growing pensively quiet as I.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	testily	"Ah, Cassie, leave him be," Stacey admonished, frowning and kicking testily at the road.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	awkward	There was an awkward silence.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	flounced	"Hey, Cassie," said Mary Lou Wellever, the principal's daughter, as she flounced by in a new yellow dress.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	meticulously	Always meticulously neat, six-year-old, Little Man never allowed dirt, or tears, or stains to mar anything he owned. Today was no exception.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	crusted	Stacey and Christopher-John, went to change into their work clothes, but Little Man just sat on the side bench looking totally dejected as he gazed at his pale blue pants that were crusted with mud from the knees down.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	stark	He could tell a fine old story that made me hold my sides with rolling laughter and sent happy tears down my cheeks, or a story of stark reality that made me shiver and be grateful of my own warm, secure surroundings.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	coddling	Big Ma was not one for coddling any of us, but now she turned from the stove and wiping her hands on her long white apron, sat down on the bench and put her arm around Little Man.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry	embittered	The information cut deeply into Little Man's brain, and each day when he found his clean clothes splashed red by the school bus, he became more and more embittered until one day he stomped angrily into the kitchen, and exploded, "They done it again, Big Ma! Just look at my clothes!"
George Washington Wasn't Always Old	gazette	For the next few weeks, George was in a daze. He couldn't believe he wasn't going to walk into the drawing room some evening and find his father sitting in his favorite armchair paging through the Virginia Gazette.	(Button coming soon)
National Geographic Explorer	tonic	The lemons nip at the surface of the water as they swim by. When picked up, these shark pups don't bite. Instead they slip into a sleep-like state. It's known as tonic immobility.
National Geographic Explorer	immobility	The lemons nip at the surface of the water as they swim by. When picked up, these shark pups don't bite. Instead they slip into a sleep-like state. It's known tonic immobility.	(Button coming soon)
National Geographic Explorer	pectoral	I hold on and look out. I don't want to miss the whitetip if it comes by. Then I see it. It swims closer. I see the white tips of each pectoral fin.	(Button coming soon)
National Geographic Explorer	carrion	Leopards are not picky eaters, though. They will eat anything from small rodents to large antelope. They feast on baby wildebeests and zebras. They even eat carrion.	(Button coming soon)
National Geographic Explorer	vervet	The cub learned a lot when her mother went looking for food. Screeching vervet monkeys often spotted her far from the den. Scurrying squirrels set off alarm calls.	(Button coming soon)
National Geographic Explorer	clamp	Legadema's mother showed her how to pin down prey. She taught her how to clamp her strong jaws on its throat. These are the kinds of skills a leopard needs to survive in the wild.	(Button coming soon)
National Geographic Explorer	abundant		(Button coming soon)
My Brother Sam is Dead	ammunitions	Some of the Massachusetts Minutemen tried to stop them there in the square, but there were too many British, and they got through and went up to Concord looking for ammunitions stores.
My Brother Sam is Dead
My Brother Sam is Dead
My Brother Sam is Dead