Short Story Vocabulary

Name:__________________

Match the words in the first column to the best available answer in the second column.

 

_____	dialect	1) eggs beaten fried and folded in half when done
_____	skirmish	2) calm or peaceful
_____	confide	3) sudden or a little rude
_____	ritual	4) local manner of speaking
_____	heritage	5) station
_____	endurance	6) ceremony or tradition
_____	virtue	7) in an off-hand or indifferent way
_____	shrewdest	8) in a serious way
_____	traditional	9) what is handed down to a person by their ancestors
_____	horrendous	10) huge distances in space
_____	ordeal	11) severe test or harsh experience
_____	stake out	12) gains power over
_____	marina	13) nudge with the nose
_____	nuzzle	14) good quality
_____	omelet	15) turned on one side
_____	hunched	16) rolled along or moved on wheels
_____	prevails	17) printed on or impressed deeply as on the mind
_____	careened	18) minor battle in a war
_____	wryly	19) cleverly
_____	deftly	20) cleverest
_____	asphalt	21) ability to withstand hardship
_____	stolidly	22) following old customs
_____	trundled	23) tell as a secret
_____	crescendo	24) humorously or twisted to one side
_____	denouement	25) the final outcome
_____	quaver	26) move heavily
_____	rickety	27) dull tiring work or boring labor
_____	casually	28) daydream or idea created by the imagination
_____	gravely	29) mark the limits of
_____	serene	30) increasing in loudness
_____	drudgery	31) bent over
_____	fantasy	32) silly or making no sense
_____	abrupt	33) large area set up for docking boats
_____	light years	34) tipped to one side suddenly
_____	depot	35) feeble or shaky
_____	lurched	36) horrible or awful
_____	lumber	37) dully or unemotionally
_____	absurd	38) road pavement
_____	imprinted	39) shake or tremble