Vocabulary Huckleberry Finn Chapters 1-20

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Read the sentence. Use prior knowledge and context clues to determine what you think the word in bold means.
Highlight words in the sentence that provide context clues.
Look in the dictionary and write the appropriate dictionary definition.
Write a compound sentence that contains the vocabulary word. Highlight words in your sentence that provide context
clues.
Compound Sentences: These are two simple sentences joined by a comma and one of the FANBOYS (for, and, nor, but,
or, yet, so) or a semicolon and words such as therefore, however, furthermore, nevertheless, consequently, etc.
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Willie went home, but Sue went to work.

The session ended, so the legislators returned to their home towns.
The negotiations ended successfully; therefore, we sold the company.

1. The Widow Douglas she took me for her son, and allowed she would sivilize me; but it was rough living in the
house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways; and so when I
couldnt stand it no longer I lit out.
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2. When you got to the table you couldnt go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her
head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warnt really anything the matter with them.
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He never could go after even a turnip-cart but he must have the swords and guns all scoured up for it, though
they was only lath and broomsticks, and you might scour at them till you rotted, and then they warnt worth a
mouthful of ashes more than what they was before.

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4. I said, why couldnt we see them, then? He said if I warnt so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I
would know without asking. He said it was all done by enchantment.
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5. So the longer I went to school the easier it got to be. I was getting sort of used to the widows ways, too, and they
warnt so raspy on me.
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6. I told him I had an old slick counterfeit quarter that warnt no good because the brass showed through the silver a
little, and it wouldnt pass nohow, even if the brass didnt show, because it was so slick it felt greasy, and so that
would tell on it every time.
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7. And after supper he talked to him about temperance and such things till the old man cried, and said hed been a
fool, and fooled away his life; but now he as a-going to turn over a new leaf
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8. Somebody tired to get in, so I was laying for him. Why didnt you roust me out? Well, I tried to, but I
couldnt; I couldnt budge you.
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9. I crossed over to that side and watched them. When they got abreast the head of the island they quit shooting and
dropped over to the Missouri shore and went home to the town.
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10. Every now and then I stopped a second amongst the thick leaves and listened, but my breath come so hard I
couldnt hear nothing elseWhen I got to camp I warnt feeling very brash, there warnt much sand in
my craw; but I says, this aint no time to be fooling around.
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11. When breakfast was ready we lolled on the grass and eat it smoking hot. Jim laid it in with all his might, for he
was most about starved. Then when we had got pretty well stuffed, we laid off and lazied.
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12. What did you speculate in, Jim? Well, fust I tackled stock. What kind of stock? Why, live stock-cattle,
you know. I put ten dollars in a cow.
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13. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didnt
ever feel like talking outloud.

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14. I felt just the way any other boy would a felt when I see that wreck laying there so mournful and lonesome in the
middle of the river.
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15. Steamboat captains is always rich, and get sixty dollars a month, and they dont care a cent what a thing costs, you
know, long as they want it. Stick a candle in your pocket; I cant rest, Jim, till we give her a rummaging.
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16. But before they got in I was up in the upper berth, cornered, and sorry I come. Then they stood there, with their
hands on the ledge of the berth, and talked.
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17. The door slammed to because it was on the careened side; and in a half second I was in the boat, and Jim come
tumbling after me.
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18. Tis my fate to be always ground into the mire under the iron heel of oppression. Misfortune has broken my once
haughty spirit; I yield, I submit; tis my fate.
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19. All the stores was along one street. They had white domestic awnings in front, and the country-people hitched
their horses to the awning-posts.
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20. To think I should have lived to be leading such a life, and be degraded down into such company. And he begun
to wipe the corner of his eye with a rag. Dern your skin, aint the company good enough for you?
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