Vocabulary Words - Tall Tales
Spelling - Week 4
- deeds - acts or actions
- exaggerate - to describe something as being greater or larger than it really is
- frontier - a remote area beyond which few people live
- hero - the main male character in a story, poem or play
- heroine - the main female character in a story, poem or play
- settler - a person who settles in a new region
- tale - a story, usually an imaginary or made-up one
- tradition - an idea, a custom or belief that is passed down from one generation to the next
- pioneers - people who are the first to settle in a region
- maul - a heavy, long-handled hammer
- varmint - wild creature
- forage - search
- dismal - gloomy
- skinflint - someone who is very reluctant to spend money
- rustle - to steal, especially livestock
instinct - knowledge one is born with

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