HITCHHIKER

PREEN

SCATTERED

(N.) someone that travels by getting free rides in passing vehicles

"Some even landed on the raft and rode with us for a

while. Hitchhikers, Grandma called them.

(V.) (of a bird) straighten and clean its feathers with its beak

"Then it preened its feathers, looked back up the river, and flew off."

(Adj.) occurring or distributed over widely-spaced and irregular intervals in time or space

"Books were scattered everywhere"

The Raft Vocabulary