LOTF

Question 1

funk

Answer 1

n1. a state of great fear or panic
n2. a coward.
eg. ) Maurice spoke, hesitating, not wanting to seem a funk.

Question 2

ruefully

Answer 2

adv. causing sorrow or pity; pitiable; deplorable: a rueful plight. feeling, showing, or expressing sorrow or pity; mournful; doleful
eg. ) He rubbed his rump ruefully.

Question 3

rump

Answer 3

n. the hind part of the body of a mammal or the lower back of a bird.
eg. ) He rubbed his rump ruefully.

Question 4

snivel

Answer 4

v. cry and sniffle.

eg. ) Then they lay quiet, panting, listening to Robert’s frightened snivels.

Question 5

brandish

Answer 5

v. wave or flourish (something, especially a weapon) as a threat or in anger or excitement.
eg. ) Jack had him by the hair and was brandishing his knife.

Question 6

frenzy

Answer 6

n. a state or period of uncontrolled excitement or wild behaviour.
eg. ) All at once, Robert was screaming and struggling with the strength of frenzy

Question 7

indignantly

Answer 7

adj. angered at something unjust or wrong.

eg. ) “I hit him,” said Ralph indignantly. “I hit him with my spear, I wounded him.”

Question 8

walloped

Answer 8

v. strike or hit very hard.

eg. ) “I walloped him properly. That was the beast, I think!”

Question 9

sun

Answer 9

v. expose (something) to the sun, especially to warm or dry it.
eg. ) He sunned himself in their new respect and felt that hunting was good after all.

Question 10

apprehension

Answer 10

n. anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen.
eg. ) Ralph was full of fright and apprehension and pride.

Question 11

swerve

Answer 11

v. change or cause to change direction abruptly.

eg. ) The boar’s note changed to a squeal and it swerved aside into the covert.

Question 12

covert

Answer 12

n. a thicket (bush or shrubs) in which game can hide.

eg. ) The boar’s note changed to a squeal and it swerved aside into the covert.

Question 13

flung (base word: fling)

Answer 13

v. throw or hurl forcefully.
eg. ) With the boar only five yards away, he flung the foolish wooden stick that he carried, saw it hit the great snout and hang there for a moment.

Question 14

intimidating

Answer 14

adj. frighten or overawe (someone), especially in order to make them do what one wants.
eg. ) Then there was a creature bounding along the pig track toward him, with tusks gleaming and an intimidating grunt.

Question 15

scrabble

Answer 15

v. scratch or grope around with one’s fingers to find, collect, or hold on to something.
eg. ) The bushes crashed ahead of them. Boys flung themselves wildly from the pig track and scrabbled in the creepers, screaming. Ralph saw Jack nudged aside and fall.

Question 16

nudged aside

Answer 16

v. to push or bump someone or something out of the way.
eg. ) The bushes crashed ahead of them. Boys flung themselves wildly from the pig track and scrabbled in the creepers, screaming. Ralph saw Jack nudged aside and fall.

Question 17

moor

Answer 17

n. a boggy area; especially : one that is peaty and dominated by grasses and sedges
eg. ) Once, following his father from Chatham to Devonport, they had lived in a cottage on the edge of the moors.

Question 18

dog-eared

Answer 18

adj. (of an object made from paper) having the corners worn or battered with use.
eg. ) And the books–they stood on the shelf by the bed, leaning together with always two or three laid flat on top because he had not bothered to put them back properly. They were dog-eared and scratched.