Across Five Aprils Vocabulary

Team Civil Creightons

Astute

• To be astute is having or showing an ability to analyze a situation and to be able to turn this to your advantage.

Calico

• Calico is a coarse cotton fabric with printed designs.

Fervent

• To be fervent is to have a passionate or heartfelt intensity of emotion.

Fine

• To be fine is to be of superior or exceptional quality.

Furrow

• A furrow is a long, narrow trench made in the earth by a plow, especially for farming (crops), or for irrigation.

Reckon

• To reckon is to conclude after a calculation• A synonym would be: consider, imagine,

guess.

Schoolmaster

• A schoolmaster is the male teacher of school.

Self-Indulgence

• Self-indulgence is something being done in a selfish, pleasurable way.

Ultimatum

• An ultimatum is a final demand or statement of terms.

Unspeakably

• The adverb of unspeakable.• To be unspeakable is to be not able to be

expressed verbally.

Weatherbeaten

• To be weatherbeaten is to be worn, dilapidated, or annihilated by the weather.

And that concludes our dictionary of:

Across Five Aprils Vocabulary!By: Kathryn, Savannah, and Trevor