Bronze Bow Vocabulary

Vocabulary Word Lists and Defintions for the Bronze Bow

Chapter One

• Lean - thin
• Unreconciled - in this context it means they did not recognize or accept
• Oleander - flowering bush that can be poisonous
• Cranny - crack, small place
• Scowl - angry frown
• Crouch - sit stooped over
• Baffled -confused
• Calloused - hardened with use
• Tunic - long shirt
• Lured - coaxed
• Frankness - ability to be open and honest
• Reputation - what the public thinks of a person
• Wary - watchful, suspicious
• Flask - container that holds liquid
• Solemnly - seriously
• Savagely - in an angry or cruel manner
• Diverted - turned aside
• Legionaares - Roman soldiers
• Contempt - looking down on another
• Glisten - shiny from water, in this connotation it refers to tears in his eyes
• Summit - highest place on a hill
• Crimson - red
• Abruptly - suddenly

Chapter Two

• Nudge - push gently
• Taut - tight
• Elation - feeling of being elated or high off the ground
• Burly - large, heavy
• Treacherous - dangerous
• Mangy - shabby
• Lurching - unsteady walk that sways to the side
• Dingy - dirty
• Drab - dull, colorless
• Erupt - burst forth like a volcano
• Hurl - throw
• Unresisting - did not resist or struggle
• Pudgy - thick, puffy
• Skirmish - brief struggle conflict
• Straggle - move in disorganized fashion
• Fracas - noisy uproar
• Wariness - condition of being wary or cautious, waiting
• Matted - tangled mass of hair
• Surge - swelling up
• Dumb - unable to talk
• Mute - someone who can’t speak
• Vanished - disappeared
• Prompted - caused or inspired
• Regretted - disagree with a previous decision
• Chafed - show friction, frustration
• Jests - cruel jokes
• Draught - drink
• Gourd - hard vegetable shell that can be used to hold water or drink
• Ferocity - savageness, wid-like
• Manacles - shackles, handcuffs or anklecuffs
• Stupor - abnormal tireness, unresponsiveness
• Interminable - unending
• Trifle - small detail

Chapter Three

• Bellows - tool that blows air on a fire
• Smelting - melting iron or metal
• Ore - metal in its natural, unmined state
• Kneading - press with your hands
• Ceasing - stopping
• Haul - to carry a heavy object
• Baffled - puzzled, confused
• Impassive - no expression or emotion
• Grudging - not willing or intended
• Pilfered - stollen
• Roused - awaken
• Sentry - guard
• Affably - friendly, pleasantly
• Chagrined - dissapointed, embarassed
• Gratifying - causing satsifaction or pleasure
• Devising - inventing of creating
• Primitive - simple
• Fortnight - two weeks
• Persuade - influence, cause another to do something
• Vast - very large
• Sullenly - angrily
• Begrudge - resent
• Subside - quiets down
• Scowling - frowning
• Panic - overwhelming fear
• Quavering - shaking
• Faltering - hesitating, uncertain
• Pauper - a poor person
• Weary - tired
• Lulled - soothed to rest
• Rancid - bitter
• Niche - an opening in a wall used as a shelf
• Tottering - shaking movements from weakness
• Yearned - desired, longed for

Chapter Four

• Descending - going downwards
• Stickler - someone who sticks to details others think are unimportant
• Impulse - thought that suddenly occurs
• Zealot - someone who was zealous about overthrowing the Romans
• Sidled - walk sidways, creep towards a side
• Huddle - stay close together
• Mounted - climbed up, rose
• Arresting - holding attention
• Regal - royal
• Profile - side of the face
• Vital - full of life
• Radiant - shining
• Scroll - parchment that was written on, used before paper was bound into books
• Surge - move like a wave
• Oppressed - burdened by harsh rulers
• Blaspheme - call one’s self a god or God, blasphemy was illegal in Isreal
• Vaguely - slightly
• Lingering - moving slowly, delaying
• Furtively - secretly
• Auxilaries - helpers
• Brutish - looking like a brute or bully
• Stifling - suffocating, hard to breathe
• Infidel - a person not part of one’s religion, in this case an insult to a non-Jewish person
• Scornfully - with scorn or contempt for another
• Timid - quiet, frightened
• Ascent - upward slope, hill

Chapter Five

• Sickle - curved blade for cutting plants
• Speculating - guessing
• Mull - think slowly and carefully
• Derision - look down on another, mocking
• Exhilarating - uplighting
• Haste - hurry
• Merest - slightest
• Abashed - ashamed
• Barge - flat bottomed boat
• Jostled - bumped
• Saunter - walk
• Contemptuous - with contempt or hate
• Falter - weaken, slow-down
• Solitude - quietness, condition of being alone
• Clamor - call out
• Terrace - raised garden
• Exquisite - extraordinarily beautiful
• Fillet - thin strip
• Dismay - alarm, worry
• Flounder - struggle with uncertainty
• Impression - mental effect, idea
• Wiry - thin and flexible like wire
• Reassert - came back
• Envy - jealousy
• Laughingstock - someone who is laughed at and made jokes of
• Gong - large metal disc that is hit to produce a sound, somewhat like a bell
• Courtesy - politeness
• Garment - clothes
• Purify - clean
• Airs - trying to impress others
• Wager - bet
• Heathen - non-believers (non-Jewish in this story)
• Affronted - annoyed by, insulted by
• Finnicky - picky
• Scant - small
• Consumed - eaten
• Rash - acting on impulse without thinking
• Glowered - stared in anger
• Swerve - turn aside
• Jest - joke
• Amended - corrected
• Hastily - quickly
• Morsels - small bits
• Puckering - forming wrinkles or folds
• Sternly - with a strict, harsh manner
• Contented - satisfied
• Stammer - speak in spurts, not smoothly
• Aghast - shocked
• Bungled - failed through clumsy behavior

Chapter Six

• Dismissal - the act of sending someone away
• Smoldering - burn with a slow flame
• Blunder - move blindly
• Sullen - in a sour mood
• Impudent - rude
• Paralyzed - unable to move
• Conserve - save
• Pursuit - chase
• Summon - call someone to come
• Wits - mind, ability to respond
• Perceived - thought
• Wavering - swaying
• Plunged - fell
• Prodded - poked
• Groping - clumsy movement
• Sponging - wiping
• Pungent - sharp, bitter smell
• Snugly - close, tightly
• Drifting - floating
• Sluggish - slow moving
• Gruel - thin, watery cereal
• Gratitude - thankfulness
• Scarcely - barely
• Cubit - one and a half feet (a cubit was the distance from the end of the longest finger to the elbow)
• Stammer - speak with pauses
• Receded - moved away from

Chapter Six

• Earnestness - sincerety, honesty
• Motionless - without motion
• Conscious - aware
• Gradually - slowly, bit by bit
• Papyrus - paper-like material used to make a scroll, made from the papyrus plant
• Content - satisfied, not unhappy
• Scowled - frowned
• Immensity - largeness
• Outlaw - someone who lives outside the law, a criiminal
• Bristled - hair stood up in anger
• Pleaded - begged
• Dreaded - feared
• Halting - unsteady, stop and go
• Vow - a solemn promise
• Revealed - shown
• Taut - tight
• Oath - vow or promise
• Avenge - get revenge for someone who was wronged
• Intended - planned, desired
• Accomplish - do, finish
• Resolve - important decision
• Vanishing - disappearing
• Redemption - deliverance from wrong

Chapter 7

• Earnestness - sincerety, honestyv
• Motionless - without motion
• Conscious - aware
• Gradually - slowly, bit by bit
• Papyrus - paper-like material used to make a scroll, made from the papyrus plant
• Content - satisfied, not unhappy
• Scowled - frowned
• Immensity - largeness
• Outlaw - someone who lives outside the law, a criminal
• Bristled - hair stood up in anger
• Pleaded - begged
• Dreaded - feared
• Halting - unsteady, stop and go
• Vow - a solemn promise
• Revealed - shown
• Taut - tight
• Oath - vow or promise
• Avenge - get revenge for someone who was wronged
• Intended - planned, desired
• Accomplish - do, finish
• Resolve - important decision
• Vanishing - disappearing
• Redemption - deliverance from wrong

Vocabulary words for all 24 chapters are included in The Bronze Bow Unit Study.

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