| A | B |
|---|
| dollop | small amount |
| mangy | having many bare spots, shabby |
| irritable | easily annoyed or angered |
| stucco | plaster or cement finish used to cover walls |
| skitter | to glide or skip lightly or quickly across a surface |
| grove | small group of trees |
| hacking | chopping |
| whittling | carving wood into a shape |
| iridescent | shining, shimmering, rainbow like colors |
| shimmered | shiny |
| Pickerel | type of fish |
| jetty | a warf or landing pier for boats, a wall to protect land from currents |
| pewter | dull silver |
| meander | to move aimlessly and idly |
| lingering | to remain in place longer than usual, doesn't seem to want to leave |
| Kingfisher | type of bird |
| stanchions | a vertical pole, post, or support |
| maneuvered | moving in a calculated way, planned route |
| lurch | to move unsteadily, stagger |
| scampered | run steadily |
| inscription | written word |
| bellow | low, loud, deep voice |
| frenzied | brief period of madness |
| quivering | shaking |
| mottled | to mark with spots or blotches of different colors |
| bewildered | confused |
| indentation | notch, mark, pushed in |
| abominable | outrageously bad, loathsome |
| poaching | illegal hunting or trapping |
| jubilant | feeling or expressing great joy, very happy, ecstatic |
| ecstatic | showing great joy, very happy, jubilant |
| deceptive | intended to make a person believe something that is not true |
| incorrigible | not capable of being corrected, hard to handle |
| cascading | flowing or falling downward (like a waterfall) |
