The Road Vocabulary

2. Their hearts were ? by the fire.
3. The man stood looking the place over and he noticed the ? and notions.
4. The man and the boy were ? to the coast.
7. At night the man thought of the ? dead from his childhood that had been relocated.
10. The man chopped at the wood around the ? and finally jammed the blade under the staple and pried it up.
12. The ? of the Kudzu were prolific.
14. “How much was gone already? The sacred ? shorn of its referents and so of its reality.”
15. They passed incinerated corpses with ten thousans dreams ? within their hearts.
16. The man could just touch the water. He scooted forward and reached again and ? up a handful of it.

1. They came upon “the ? shapes of old harrow troughs (probably planted cotton).
5. In the produce section they found a few ancient apricots, long dried to wrinkled ? of themselves.
6. They needed to be ?, alleviating some of the undergrowth.
8. They did not trust the motionless and gray ? which ran by the roadside.
9. Many had died in a(n) ? epidemic.”
11. The house they entered at the landing on the stairs was a tall ? window.
13. They drank the last of their good water and left the ? standing in the road.
16. “He lit a fire and smoke curled up and over the painted wooden ?.”