5D+Tuck+Chapter+5

=__Sentences to help with understanding:__=
 * 1.** **Still, it was __galling__, this having to admit she was afraid.** //Galling means annoying. She was annoyed at herself for being afraid.//
 * 2.** **And when she remembered the toad, she felt even more __disheartened__.** //Disheartened means depressed.//
 * 3.** **It was another heavy morning, already __hot and breathless__, but in the wood the air was cooler and smelled agreeably damp.** //Babbit is using figurative language here. Breathless means not being able to breath. What is she trying to say?//
 * 4.** **Winnie had been no more than two slow minutes walking timidly under the __interlacing__ branches when she wondered why she had never come here before.** //The branches above are entangled, almost creating a roof in the wood.//
 * 5.** **It was green and __amber__ and alive, quivering in splotches on the padded ground, fanning into sturdy stripes between the tree trunks.** //Amber is a brownish yellow.//
 * 6.** **…beetles and birds and squirrels and ants, and countless other things unseen, all gentle and __self-absorbed__ and not in the least alarming.** //The living things are only paying attention to what they are doing. They aren't concerned about the other living things around them.//
 * 7.** **She wandered for a long time, looking at everything, listening to everything, proud to forget the tight, __pruned__ world outside, humming a little …** //Again Babbitt is being figurative. The literal definition of pruned is trimmed and clean-cut.//
 * 8.** **…he wore his battered trousers and loose, grubby shirt with as much __self-assurance__ as if they were silk and satin.** //Self-assurance is confidence.//
 * 9.** **He waved the twig __idly__ as he sat there, his face turned up to gaze at the branches…** //He's waving the twig lazily and slowly.//
 * 10.** **“That’s good,” said Winnie __irrelevantly__.** //Irrelevant is off-topic.//
 * 11.** **She stepped back and sat down __primly__ a short distance from him.** //She sat stiff and formally.//

=__Vocabulary:__ console, instinct, bleak=

=__Question # 1:__ In this chapter Jesse refuses to let Winnie drink from the bubbling spring. Why does he do that? Would you have done the same thing or would you have let her drink from it? Explain your opinion in a complete paragraph.=

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