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Scott Foresman Reading Vocabulary Unit 1
Island of the Blue Dolphin
Historical Fiction
| gnawed | bitten or worn away |
| headland | narrow ridge of high land jutting out into the water; promontory |
| kelp | any of various large, tough, brown seaweeds |
| lair | den or resting place of a wild animal |
| ravine | a long, deep, narrow valley eroded by running water |
| shellfish | a water animal with a shell (oysters, clams, crabs, and lobsters are shellfish.) |
| sinew | tendon |