The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Key Vocabulary

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow resurfaces every year around Halloween. Washington Irving's 1820 tale of a headless horseman who terrorizes the real-life village of Sleepy Hollow is considered one of America's first ghost stories—and one of its scariest.

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A family of young animals, especially birds, born at the same time

Ex: The mother hen watched over her brood

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​Brood

Someone who is gangly is tall and thin and moves in an awkward way

Gangly can also be used to describe animals, like a baby deer with long legs ​

​Gangly

Laden means "heavily loaded or weighed down

Ex: A student might be laden with a heavy backpack

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​Laden

A musket is an old-fashioned firearm that was once used by soldiers

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​Musket

Something that is rickety is in poor physical condition-it's likely to shake or even collapse

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​Rickety

A tether is a rope or a chain that is fastened to something, such as an animal or balloon, in order to restrict where it can go

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​Tether

A thicket is a dense patch of bushes, shrubbery or small trees

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​Thicket