| A | B |
|---|
| give | hand over, sometimes as a gift |
| adventure | something a person does that is fun and sometimes dangerous |
| cried | past tense of cry |
| mainly | for the most part |
| meow | the sound made by a cat or kitten |
| rich | having much money or land |
| robbers | persons who rob or steal; thieves |
| truth | that which is true; not a lie |
| stretch | to say or think something is greater than it is; to go beyond the truth |
| Mark Twain | the man who wrote THE ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN and THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER |
| Tom Sawyer | Huckleberry's good friend |
| Aunt Polly | Tom Sawyer's aunt and Aunt Sally's sister |
| Widow Douglas | the kind woman who takes Huckleberry into her home to care for him |
| Judge Thatcher | the judge who takes care of Huck's money |
| THE ADVENTURES OF TOM SAWYER | a book |
| Moses and the Bulrushes | a story from the Bible |
| awful | very large; great; terrible |
| blood | the liquid in the veins of animals with backbones |
| candle | a stick of wax that is used to give light |
| cave | a hole under the ground or in the side of a mountain |
| clothes | cloth used to cover the body |
| kitchen | a room where food is cooked |
| river | a large stream of water that empties into another body of water |
| rule | something that shows us the way to act or not to act |
| slave | long ago, a person who was owned by another person |
| witch | a woman who is supposed to have magic powers |
| Miss Watson | the Widow's sister; she lives with the Widow and Huck |
