The Pearl Vocab

Sentence from the Novel | Dictionary Definition | Create Your Own Sentence | “Outside the brush house in the tuna clump, a covey of little birds chittered and flurried with their wings.” (pg 1) | a brood or small flock of partridges or similar birds. | Sitting on the beach, I looked up and saw a convey of huge birds flapping their wings. | “Near the brush fence two roosters bowed and feinted at each other with squared wings and neck feathers ruffed out.” (pg 4) | a movement made in order to deceive an adversary; an attack aimed at one place or point merely as a distraction from the real place or point of attack | The boxer feinted and fell from the punch of his opponent pretending to be hurt. | “In his mind a new song had come, the Song of Evil, the music of the enemy, of any foe of the family, a savage, secret, dangerous melody, and underneath, the Song of the Family cried plaintively.” (pg 5) | Expressing sorrow or melancholy; mournful | The mother whimpered plaintively as it was the 4th day that she could not find her child. | “They came to the place where the brush houses stopped and the city of stone and plaster began, the city of harsh outer walls and inner cool gardens where a little water played and the bougainvillaea crusted the walls with purple and brick-red and white.” (pg 8) | | any tropical woody nyctaginaceous widely cultivated climbing plant of the genus Bougainvillea, having inconspicuous flowers surrounded by showy red or purple bracts | | Surrounded by beautiful bougainvillaea, the resort offers an amazing place to sit back and relax. | “They knew his ignorance, his cruelty, his avarice, his appetites, his sins.” (pg 9) | insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth. | Some very wealthy people have avarice. | “And, since early Mass was over and business was slow, they followed the procession, these endless searchers after perfect knowledge of their fellow men, to see what the fat lazy doctor