The Pearl Vocabulary Sentences

Match a vocabulary word to each sentence below. (1 point each)

Chapter 1 and 2
bulwark        consolation       estuary     hummock     illusion     incandescence     
plaintively     subsequent    suppliant     unsubstantial      undulating                 

1.  The beggars slept in the shadow of the church so that no one came in for _____ from the priest without their knowing it.
2.  In a _____ manner, Kino asked the doctor to treat Coyotito, but when he refused, Kino struck the fence with a crushing blow.
3.  The doctor had once been part of the great world and his ____ life was memory and longing for France.
4.  Kino could hear the Song of the Family crying _____ as the Song of the Enemy roared in his ears. 
5.  The pearl reflected the light and gave it back in silver _____.
6.  Juana believed that the minds of people are as ____ as a mirage of the Gulf.
7.  A little to Kino's right, a _____ of rubbly rock stuck up, covered with oysters.
8.  Kino's canoe, which was both property and a source of food,  was his ____ against starvation.
9.  Above Kino, the surface of the water was an ____ mirror of brightness.
10.  The town lay on a broad ____, its old yellow plastered buildings hugging the beach.
11.  Kino knew that what he had seen in the water might not be real; it might be a reflection or a complete _____.

Chapter 3 and 4
coagulating      colonial      confirmation   countenanced      consecrated    distillate    incandescence    lethargy         prophecy      semblance          subjugation      transfigured                                                  

12.  The town was like a ____ animal; everyone worked closely together and news traveled through the town like pain travels up your nervous system.
13.  The pearl buyers all worked for one man but they sat alone in their own shops to give a _____ of competition.
14.  The news of Kino's pearl stirred up something dark and evil in the town; the black _____ was like the scorpion or like hunger in the smell of food.
15.  In the _____ of the pearl, pictures formed in Kino's mind of things he had wanted in the past but never thought he could possess.
16.  Kino's face shown with _____.  "My son will read books and write and make numbers.
17.  Neighbors knew they would discuss Kino's pearl for many years and how he became a ____ man with great power.
18.  Kino and Juana told the priest they would be married now in the church and then at their neighbors for _____.
19.  Hatred raged in Kino's eyes, and fear too, for the hundreds of years of ____ that his people had lived with since the Spanish conquered Mexico.
20.  From a secret place, Juana brought a little piece of ____ candle, lit the flame, and set quickly to work, swabbing the blood from Kino's forehead.
21.  Bidding against each other for the pearls brought in by fisherman was a wasteful method and not to be _____, for it drove the price too high.
22.  Kino felt the evil ____ about him, like the circling of wolves, the hover of vultures, and he was unable to protect himself.
23.  Kino sat brooding on his sleeping mat; a ____ had settled on him, and a little gray hopelessness.

Chapter 5 and Chapter 6
amulet    cicadas    escarpment    germane    goading        herring clouds
irresolution    intercession        Loreto station        monolithic    petulant
resinous    rummaged    skirled    ulcerous

24.  A flight of ___ had moved over the sky from the South.
25.  Juana ___ in a box for her best head shawl.
26.  Now the evil music filled the night and ____ in the beat of the waves.
27.  Juana urged Kino to the return the pearl to the sea, and her____ stuck in his brain.
28.  They headed north by the stars to ____ where the miraculous Virgin Mary has her place.
29.  The air was dry an hot and a good _____ smell came from the brush.
30.  Ahead were the naked granite mountains standing ____ against the sky.
31.  Kino looked for weakness in Juana's face, for fear or ____, but there was none.
32.  The column of white water crashed down the mountain and over the ____.
33.  After the long journey, Coyotito was tired and ____, and he cried softly.
34.  For protection, Kino rubbed the ___ hooked to his neck-string.
35.  Juana whispered her combination of prayer and magic, her Hail Mary's and her ancient ______, against the black unhuman things.
36.  The chirping of tree frogs and the high, metallic ringing of ____ filled the night air.
37.  Any sound that was not ____ to the night would make the trackers alert.
38.  Kino looked at the pearl and it was gray and ____ like a malignant growth.