A Home Where the Buffalo Roam

Words in Use (Lesson 20)

• emerge
• jagged
• linger
• ambush
• crafty
• defiant
• vigor
• perish
• fragile
• captive
• prosper
• devour

Read the following passage to see how the new words are used in it.

A Home Where the Buffalo Roam
Even today in South Dakota, a cowboy emerges from behind a jagged rock where he has lingered in ambush waiting for the crafty buffalo to appear. Although not wild-they are raised on vast* ranches-the gallant,* defiant bison need to be hunted with the same vigor cowboys showed a century* ago. For a while, Americans thought the buffalo would perish from the earth; fortunately* the buffalo is far from being such a fragile animal. Now more or less captive, the buffalo, an estimated* 10,000, are raised for profit by ranchers who prosper from the sale of buffalo meat. When did you devour your last morsel* of tasty buffalo burger?