Vocabulary Task

foe	chuck	aleck	dubious
edgewise	taut	lope
resignation	plop	squaw(offensive)	wallow

1.     There was not much food, and they had from the first _____ whom they could not trust or make a friend.

2.     Their lives consist mostly of lying in wait for insects that buzz about keeping watch for garden snakes which love to lunch on amphibians ______ in muddy water, and croaking till the throat goes dry.

3.     Their wives, the _____, would dress the food and do all hard work at home.

4.     Then it _____ down again and began to stare far out into space, as many miles and years out into space as there are miles and years in space.

5.     Tracy in turn stood staring at the black panther, ______ away his cigarette, cleared his throat, spat, and walked out of the zoo.

6.     He’d got it whole in the five minutes he’d watched it staring into infinity with a tiger’s terrible ______ and pride.

7.     He was a smart _____.

8.     He was deeply troubled about the probability of a _____strain in the tiger’s lineage.

9.     Every now and then Tracy tried to get a word in _____ about the song he was writing, but he never quite made it.

10.The muscles of Tracy’s tiger became _____, its slim head pushed forward toward the girl, its tail shot straight out, rigid except for the almost imperceptible vibrating of it.

11.Tracy, watching the girl go, watching the tiger _____ after her, said it again.