Vocabulary

toc **Chapter 1**
Vocabulary:


 * assuaged- to make an unpleasant feeling less intense
 * chattels- a personal possesion
 * apothecary- a person who prepared and sold medicine and drugs
 * spittoon- a metal or earthenware pot
 * taciturn- uncommunicative in speech
 * piety- the quality of being religious
 * riverboats- a boat with a shallow draft designed to be used on rivers.
 * dictum- a formal announcement from an authoritative source
 * unsullied- not spoiled
 * teacakes- a light raised sweet bun with dried fruit
 * collards- a cabbage that doesn't develop a heart
 * malevolent- showing a wish to do evil to others
 * predilection- a special liking for something
 * flivver- a cheap car or aircraft

**Chapter 2**
Vocabulary:


 * vexations- the state of being annoyed
 * sojourn- a temporary stay

**Chapter 3:**
Vocabulary:


 * iniquities- immoral of grossly unfair behavior
 * flinty- containing, reminiscent of flint
 * furor- an outbreak of public anger or excitement
 * misdemeanor- a minor wrongdoing

**Chapter 4:**
Vocabulary:


 * auspicious- Favorable
 * smatter- a slight superficial knowledge of a language or subject
 * melancholy- a feeling of pensive sadness
 * quelling- put an end to

**Chapter 5:**
Vocabulary:


 * foolhardy- recklessly bold
 * scuppernongs- a variety of grapes native in North Caroline
 * magisterial- Having or showing great authority
 * pestilence- a fatal epidemic disease
 * asinine- extremely foolish

**Chapter 6:**
Vocabulary:


 * lattice-work- interlacing strips of wood, metal or other material.

**Chapter 7:**
Vocabulary:


 * embalming- To preserve from decay
 * hoodooing- voodoo; witchcraft

**Chapter 8:**
Vocabulary:


 * Appomattox- a historical site in Central Virginia
 * morphodite- shortend version of hermaphrodite (a person with both male and female genitalia)
 * adjacent- next to or adjoining something else


 * Chapter 9:**

Vocabulary:


 * hookah- an oriental tobacco pipe with a long flexible tube.
 * trousseau- the belongings collected by a bride for her marriage.
 * nome- a division of modern Greece.


 * Chapter 10:**

Vocabulary:


 * jubilant- feeling or expressing happiness


 * Chapter 11:**

Vocabulary:


 * camellia- an evergreen eastern Asian shrub.


 * Chapter 12:**

Vocabulary:


 * Shadrach- A 99 year old former slave
 * habiliments- clothing
 * asafoetida- a resinous gum.


 * Chapter 13:**

Vocabulary:


 * flintlock- old fashioned type of run.


 * Chapter 14:**

Vocabulary:


 * chillun - a way of saying children
 * carnal- relating to physical, sexual needs and activities
 * penitentiary- a prison for people convicted of serious crimes


 * Chapter 15:**

Vocabulary:


 * linotype- a composing machine producing lines of words as single strips of metal, used mostly for newspapers.
 * encumbered - restrict or burden


 * Chapter 16:**

Vocabulary:


 * mennonites - a member of a Protestant sect originating in Friesland.
 * akimbo- with his hands of the hips and elbows turned outward.
 * gala- a social occasion with special entertainments or performances
 * dispel- make


 * Chapter 17:**

Vocabulary:


 * corroborating - confirm or give support to
 * bantam- a chicken of a small breed
 * corrugated- shaped into alternate ridges and grooves
 * cheesecloth- thin, loosely woven cloth of cotton.
 * benignly- gentle
 * rapping- strike with a series of rapid audible blows


 * Chapter 18:**

Vocabulary:


 * brash
 * chiffarobe


 * Chapter 19:**

Vocabulary:


 * misdemeanor
 * thin-hided


 * Chapter 20:**

Vocabulary:


 * aridity
 * iota
 * unmitigated
 * temerity
 * distaff