Wings & Stings

Chapter V: The Courage of Kettin
Pre-Reading Vocabulary List

toiling          embankment          procession
encourage          reproof          commotion
waists (waistshirt)          gauzy          gloomy
dusk          score (a number amount)          swarm
unity          mortar          architectural
spacious          loiter          clamor
whimper          soothe          neglect
sentinel          willful          inquisitive
horrid          staid          bodily
limpid          indignant          campaign (battle)
tidings          afflicted          vanquished
solemn          regiment          brigade
skirmash          aid-de-camp          reinforcements
inhabitant          haste          besieging
combat          assail          resistance
victorious          hither          wrest
cease          astonishment          perceive
immense          plague          granaries
hull          chaff          parasol
inquisitive          outcast          sanitary
plague          condemned          custom
despair          infested          scuttle
outpost          contagion          heroine