Verbal and Vocabulary

"Jack crouched with his face a few inches away from this clue,"

What is the meaning of crouched?

• stand up

• run quickly

• squat (down)

"Here was loop of creeper with a tendril pendant from a node."

What is a tendril?

• a shell

• slender structure by which some plants attach to an object.

• a deserted island

"He closed his eyes, raised his head and breathed in gently

with flared nostrils, assessing the current of warm air for information."

What is the definition of assessing?

• estimate the nature, quality, ability of something

• to smell something

• to sleep

"The silence of the forest was more oppressive than the heat, and at

this hour of the day there was not even the whine of insects."

What does oppressive mean?

• warm climate

• to press

• weighing heavily on the senses or spirit

"He was down like a sprinter, his nose only a few inches from the humid earth."

Define humid

• cold

• muggy and steamy

• ground

"Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss

of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees."

What does furtive mean?

• quick

• secret and sly

• noisy

"The whole space was walled with dark aromatic bushes, and was a bowl of heat and light.'

What do think aromatic means?

• having a strong pleasant odor

• an awful smell

• a bright light

"The tree trunks and the creepers that festooned them lost themselves in a green dusk thirty feet above him,"

What is the definition of festooned?

• opened

• decorated

• scared

"Jack himself shrank at this cry with a hiss of indrawn breath, and for a minute became less a hunter than a furtive thing, ape-like among the tangle of trees."

What does furtive mean?

• quick

• secret and sly

• noisy

"The littluns watched him inscrutably over double handfuls of ripe fruit."

What is the meaning of inscrutably?

• peacefully

• impossible to understand/puzzled

• carefully