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.