Huck Finn Slang Vocabulary - Hamburg Central School District
Huck Finn Slang Vocabulary - Hamburg Central School District
Huck Finn Slang Vocabulary - Hamburg Central School District
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Short Commentary<br />
<strong>Huck</strong> meets up with Jim and finds out why Jim has run away from Miss Watson. He also<br />
finds out how Jim escaped. Both Jim and <strong>Huck</strong> tend to make light of the way they<br />
managed to cope with the difficulties they face – are they right to do this?<br />
Chapter 9<br />
<strong>Vocabulary</strong><br />
tolerable long steep hill quite a long steep hill<br />
frame house a wooden house (built around a<br />
timber frame with panelling on<br />
the outside)<br />
gashly ghastly<br />
calico cheap cotton<br />
two bits 25¢<br />
reticule a small bag used by ladies for<br />
keeping sewing articles in<br />
vials of medicine glass tubes with medicine in<br />
curry-comb a comb used to brush horses<br />
Short Commentary<br />
The search of the frame house is going to be very important later on in the story. Can<br />
you work out why?<br />
Chapter 10<br />
<strong>Vocabulary</strong><br />
a-ha’nting haunting (as a ghost)<br />
planted and comfortable buried properly<br />
rummaged searched<br />
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