Streams to the River Vocabulary Words

Vocabulary Words and Definitions for Scott O'Dell's historical fiction book about Sacagawea: Streams to the River, River to the Sea



Vocab word lists are printed as a book marker. Words are listed by chapter in the order they appear in the text.

Chapter by Chapter Words

Streams to the River Vocabulary Words

Chapter 1

• Blackcaps - black raspberries
• Plunder - stealing by a raid or attack
• Skitter - to flee with a quick, quiet, skipping motion
• Stealthily -moving silently to keep secret

Chapter Two

• Stout - large, heavy
• Captor - one who captures another
• Squat - positioned low
• Ermine - white fur from a weasle
• Reel - to stagger, not move straight
• Roached - brushed forward into a curve
• Sachem - chief
• Flinty - hard as flint rock, cruel
• Linger - move slowly, delay
• Sprawling - lying down in a stretched out position

Chapter Four

• Drag - tassel that drags on the ground
• Simmering - low boil, slow anger

Chapter Five

• Haughty - proud, arrogant
• Driblets - small amt of water
• Wrath - anger

Chapter Six

• Hillock - small mound
• Weir - low dam that raised the water level in a river
• Talisman- spirit guide

Chapter Seven

• Mauruding - raiding villages to steal
• Plunged - to fall into, often into water

Chapter Eight

• Decreed - declared, usually a legal declaration
• Upended - turned upside down

Chapter Nine

• Clamor - noise from voices
• Din - loud background noise
• Antic - funny or ridiculous actions
• Hurl - throw with force
• Heaved - life or throw upward

Chapter Ten

• Huddle - draw close together
• Sullen - gloomy, bad mood
• Lank - long, straight
• Lumbering - slow
• Gait - walk
• - grab
• Frenzy - purposeless excitement
• Scarcely - barely

Vocabulary words from all chapters are included in the Streams to the River Unit Study.

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Streams to the River, River to the Sea

Information on the historical fiction novel about Sacagawea by Scott O'Dell