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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Help Page
Items Available:   Crossword Puzzles   Pictures   Study Help   Vocabulary Words   Mark Twain Bio   Full Novel Text #1   Full Novel Text #2	Image Source Here	Mark Twain Quotes: (from Twainquotes.com) "Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail." "Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned." "Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, & over these ideals they dispute & cannot unite--but they all worship money." "Man is the only animal that blushes. Or needs to."

Vocabulary Crossword Puzzles:

1. Vocabulary Crossword #1 (Puzzle and Clues)

2. Vocabulary Crossword #2 (Puzzle and Clues)

3. Vocabulary Crossword #3 (Puzzle and Clues)

Pictures: (Click on the links for the pictures.)

Huck Finn enjoys some time alone

Elijah Wood as Huck Finn

A depiction of Huck Finn

Ron Perlman as Pap

Huck and Pap

Miss Watson

Jim

The Walter Scott

The Dauphin (left) and the Duke (right)

Boggs is shot by Sherburn

Tom fooling Aunt Sally

Jim's Coat of Arms

Huck bids the reader farewell

Vocabulary Words:

1. skiff (n) a small rowboat

2. Providence (n) the care or guidance of God

3. temperance (n) abstinence from alcoholic beverages

4. stanchion (n) an upright post used as support

5. sounding (n) an exploration of the bottom of a body of water made by use of a weighted line

6. palaver (v) to talk idly or to chat

7. quicksilver (n) mercury

8. abolitionist (n) a person who favored the ending of slavery

9. two bits (n) colloquial saying meaning 25 cents

10. wadding (n) any soft material stuffed somewhere, in this case against ammunition to keep it firmly in place in the back end of a gun barrel

11. truck (n) small articles, usually having little value

12. apprentice (n) a person who is contracted to work a specified length of time for another in return for instruction

13. texas (n) a structure on the upper deck of a steamboat, containing the officers’ quarters

14. starboard (n) the right side of a boat when one is facing forward

15. larboard (n) port; the left side of a boat when one is facing forward

16. berth (n) a built-in bed in a boat’s cabin

17. stern (n) the rear end of a boat

18. staving (adj) vivid or realistic

19. liberty pole (n) a tall flagpole

20. undisposed (adj) variant of indisposed meaning unwilling

21. phrenology (n) a discredited system of trying to analyze a person’s character by studying the shape of, bumps on, the skull

22. histrionic (adj) overacted; extremely theatrical or emotional

23. soliloquy (n) a speech heard only by the speaker and the audience in a play

24. sublime (adj) noble; awe-inspiring because of beauty or grandeur

25. ponderous (adj) heavy; massive

26. nonesuch (n) a unique and amazing person or thing

27. impudent (adj) disrespectful

28. contrive (v) to think up or make up, especially in a clever or skillful manner

29. remiss (adj) careless or negligent about performing a task

30. crest (a figure placed above the shield on a coat of arms

31. singular (adj) very strange or peculiar

32. sultry (adj) oppressively hot; uncomfortable, unpleasant, or risky