Flashcards: The Cremation of Sam McGee Vocabulary
All 14 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 cremation | to reduce (a dead body) to ashes by fire |
| moil | to toil and slave |
| marge | poetic word for the shore of the lake |
| queer | strange |
| whimper | to make low,crying sounds |
| heed | to give careful attention to |
| rave | to talk wildly, as in delirium |
| lashed | tied to |
| brawn | physical strength |
| dumb | unable to speak |
| woes | misfortune; calamity |
| loath | to hate |
| mad | crazy; insane |
| derelict | an abandoned ship |