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1. Caber Noun A caber is a roughly trimmed tree trunk used in the Scottish Highland sport of tossing the caber, which involves heaving the trunk into the air so that it lands on its opposite end. The word is from Scottish Gaelic cabar "pole"

2. Abase Noun To lower in position, estimation, or the like; degrade. Abasement ORIGIN Old French abaissier ‘to lower’.

3. Exigent adverb requiring action, demanding Exigently

4. Felicity noun happiness origin latin felicias from felix ‘happy’

5. Muckraking noun the action of searching out and publicizing scandal about famous people. ORIGIN coined by President Theodore Roosevelt in a speech (1906) alluding to the man with the muck rake in Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress.

6. Bovvered noun aggravation

7. Metatarsal noun the bones of the foot, between the ankle and the toes metatarsus

8. Bidarka noun a canoe covered with animal skins, used by the Inuit of Alaska and adjacent regions. origin early 19th cent.: from Russian baidarka, diminutive of baidara ‘an umiak’.

9. Courtliest • adjective (courtlier, courtliest) very dignified and polite. DERIVATIVES courtliness noun.
10. Scatology • noun a preoccupation with excrement and excretion. DERIVATIVES scatological adjective. ORIGIN from Greek skor ‘dung’.

11. sully verb (sullies, sullied) damage the purity or integrity of; defile. ORIGIN perhaps from French souiller ‘to soil’.

12.cushy adjective (cushier, cushiest) informal 1 (of a task or situation) easy and undemanding. 2 N. Amer. (of furniture) comfortable. DERIVATIVES cushiness noun. ORIGIN from Urdu, ‘pleasure’.

13. bonny (also bonnie) adjective (bonnier, bonniest) chiefly Scottish & N. English 1 physically attractive; healthy-looking. 2 sizeable; considerable. DERIVATIVES bonnily adverb bonniness noun. ORIGIN perhaps related to Old French bon ‘good’.

14. orotund adjective 1 (of the voice) resonant and impressive. 2 (of writing or style) pompous. ORIGIN from Latin ore rotundo ‘with rounded mouth’.

15. vaunt verb usu. as adj. vaunted boast about or praise.
DERIVATIVES vaunting adjective. ORIGIN Latin vantare, from vanus ‘vain, empty’.



Once upon a time there was a bear, a raccoon, a sheep, and a shark. The raccoon was the courtliest, the bear is very scatological, and the raccoon had a lot of bovver. They were in the forest when the shark saw something fly which was a caber. So he yelled and got all the animals to meet at the tree. They started to go on their excursion. On their way to the creek the animals found a boat on top of a house but they needed to abase the boat so they could bring it with them to the creek. The sheep fell as he was climbing the house and broke his metatarsal. As they were on there way to the creek. All the animals had to collect a bunch of sticks to keep warm, but it was exigent, they thought it was too much for them. When they stopped to get the wood the shark saw a very bonny dolphin, as soon as they started to talk the shark found out she was very cushy, and orotund. After the shark and the dolphin spent so much time together the shark asked the dolphin out. The shark would vaunt about how he had a girlfriend and the others didn’t. They herd there was a muckraking so they were on there way to the city when they say a bidarka covering the right trail so they didn’t ‘t no which way to go. They were lost for a little while but they ended up finding some sullied food. They ate in anyways. In the end all the animals came together and they were full of felicity after they found their way back from their trip.