A Convict's Tale
Pre-Reading
Starving!: when you are very hungry
Grateful: expressing gratitude
Chapter 1
Nightmare: a frightening or terrifying dream that produces feelings of great fear and anxiety.
Sewer: an artificial passage, usually underground, for carrying off waste water and refuse
Maid: a female servant
Butler: the chief male servant of a household
Proud: feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something thought of as bringing credit or honor to oneself
Chapter 2
Nappy: a diaper.
Mud: wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river;
mire.
Dye: a coloring material or matter
Drag: to be pulled along; to move heavily or slowly and with great effort
Chapter 3
Tablecloth: a cloth for covering the top of a table
Buns: a round bread roll, plain or sweetened
Tray: a flat, shallow container, used for carrying or displaying articles
Icing: a sweet mixture of sugar, butter, and flavoring, used as a coating on cakes, cookies, etc.; frosting Moughts watered Grab: to seize suddenly, eagerly, or roughly;snatch
Overcrowd: to cause to have too many people in (a room, building, etc.);crowd or fill too much
Were accused of minor theft
Hemp: the tough fiber of this plant
logs: a portion or length of the trunk or of a large limb of a tree that has fallen.
I'll never leave you
Advice: an opinion or recommendation offered as a guide to action.
Scar: a mark left by a healed wound
Cheek: either side of the face below the eye and above the jaw
Lay awake- don't sleep
Trust: reliance on the goodness, strength, or ability of a person or thing;confidence
Deck: a floorlike surface taking up one level of a hull of a vessel
Drown: to die from being put under wáter
Sickness: a particular disease or malady
Starving!: when you are very hungry
Grateful: expressing gratitude
Chapter 1
Nightmare: a frightening or terrifying dream that produces feelings of great fear and anxiety.
Sewer: an artificial passage, usually underground, for carrying off waste water and refuse
Maid: a female servant
Butler: the chief male servant of a household
Proud: feeling pleasure or satisfaction over something thought of as bringing credit or honor to oneself
Chapter 2
Nappy: a diaper.
Mud: wet, soft earth or earthy matter, as on the ground after rain, at the bottom of a pond, or along the banks of a river;
mire.
Dye: a coloring material or matter
Drag: to be pulled along; to move heavily or slowly and with great effort
Chapter 3
Tablecloth: a cloth for covering the top of a table
Buns: a round bread roll, plain or sweetened
Tray: a flat, shallow container, used for carrying or displaying articles
Icing: a sweet mixture of sugar, butter, and flavoring, used as a coating on cakes, cookies, etc.; frosting Moughts watered Grab: to seize suddenly, eagerly, or roughly;snatch
Overcrowd: to cause to have too many people in (a room, building, etc.);crowd or fill too much
Were accused of minor theft
Hemp: the tough fiber of this plant
logs: a portion or length of the trunk or of a large limb of a tree that has fallen.
I'll never leave you
Chapter 4
Scar: a mark left by a healed wound
Cheek: either side of the face below the eye and above the jaw
Lay awake- don't sleep
Trust: reliance on the goodness, strength, or ability of a person or thing;confidence
Chapter 5
Drown: to die from being put under wáter
Sickness: a particular disease or malady
Chapter 6
Qualified: having the qualities, accomplishments, skills, knowledge, or credentials one needs for a job, function, position, office...
Temper: a state of mind or feelings;habit of mind;
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