Seedfolks Vocabulary chapters 1-3

Choose the correct definition for the word altar as used in the sentence below:

I stood before our family altar.

• fireplace in the living room

• to make different in some particular, as size, style, course, or the like

• an elevated place or structure, as a mound or platform, at which religious rites are performed

I stared at my father's photograph - his thin face stern, lips latched tight, his eyes peering permanently to the right.

• firm, strict, or uncompromising

• the after part of a vessel

• happy

The candles and the incense sticks, lit the day before to mark his death anniversary, had burned out.

• matches

• to inflame with wrath; make angry

• any pleasant perfume or fragrance

I nearly stepped on two rats gnawing and froze.

• to waste or wear away

• to bite or chew on

• to cause corrosion

And I vowed to myself that those beans would thrive.

• to be wilted

• be sold

• to prosper; be fortunate or successful.

Why do I need a TV when I have forty-eight apartment windows to watch across the vacant lot, and a sliver of Lake Erie?

• having no contents; empty; void:

• trashy

• filled

I used to stand just here and watch the coal brought up by the handsome lad from Groza...

• boy

• worker

• boyfriend

And after twenty years typing for the Parole department, I just about knew what she'd buried.

• word of honor given or pledged

• the conditional release of a person from prison

• language as manifested in the actual utterances produced by speakers of a language

They were wilted. Leaves flopped flat on the ground.

• dead

• a virus disease of various caterpillars

• drooping, as a fading flower