Rifles for Watie Vocabulary

Our Rifles for Watie Vocabulary word lists presents uncommon words in the order they appear in the chapter.

Vocabulary Words from Rifles for Watie

Chapter 1

• Cascade - Falls like a waterfall
• Drouth - Drought, period of dry weather
• Erratic - Unusual, irregular
• Clique - Exclusive group that shuts out others
• Guerilla Warfare - non-official groups that attack towns systematically
• Feist - Small mongrel dog, mutt
• Homespun - Plain cloth, woven at home
• Rangy - Slender
• Orate - Give formal speech
• Paregoric - Medicine
• Bushwhackers - Irregular military that raid rural areas

Chapter 2

• Laming - to make someone lame or crippled
• Cunning - shrewd, has a connotation of deceitfulness
• Adversary - opponent or enemy
• Spurs - metal placed over boots to urge a horse forward
• Pungent - sharp smell
• Precept - rule or law

Chapter 3

• Brogans - heavy, ankle-high work shoes
• Sumac - a plant, can be toxic, used in tanning
• Awry - in the wrong direction
• Relunctantly - with hesitation or uncertainty

Chapter 4

• Audible - able to be heard
• Impertinent - improper, smart alec or rude
• Evasive - tending to hide something
• Swarthy - dark complexion
• Surly - sour mood
• Vindictive - desire to hurt
• Jaded - tired or cynical
• Bivouac - encampment of tents
• Hazed - clouded
• Furlough - recess or break
• Tamarisk - a weed-like shrub bush that grows in dry soil

Chapter 5

• Pensive - thoughtfully
• Daguerreotype - old fashioned photographs using mercury vapor on a silver plate
• Tawny - yellowish brown color
• Florid - rosy color or flowery shape
• Dejected - sad, depressed

Chapters 6 - 11

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