| lose | not have any longer |
| tone | quality of sound |
| bore | to make a hole |
| loon | duck-like bird |
| nip | pinch |
| compose | make up |
| stockade | high, strong fence |
| howl | a long and sad cry |
| cause | to make something happen |
| duty | obligation |
| ferocious | savage |
| literate | able to read and write |
| minuscule | very small |
| nonfiction | prose works based on facts |
| fiction | an imagined story |