Reading: "A Dark Night" Vocabulary

Match the word with its definition. If you aren't sure of what the word means, look it up in a dictionary or glossary. ammunition bullets, bombs, rockets, or anything else that can be fired from a gun or exploded overcoat a heavy coat worn over top of your regular clothes to help keep you warm girth a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place crooked having bends or curves; not straight patriots one who loves and defends his or her country adjusted changed or moved something to make it fit better patrolled to make regular trips around a place in order to guard seized to take hold of; grab spurred goad with spurs, as of horses when riding unbolting to undo a latch or door painstakingly in an extremely careful manner muffle to wrap or pad with something to dull the sound glided to move smoothly, quietly and with ease belfry a tower or room in a tower for a bell or a set of bells mingled came together, mixed, joined flicker light that moves back and forth very quickly, like the light of a candle intend to plan or have in mind veered turn, swerve, to quickly change direction occupied filled up, no longer any space available ammunition overcoat girth crooked patriots adjusted patrolled seized spurred unbolting painstakingly muffle glided belfry mingled flicker intend veered occupied