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Fever 1793
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Droned | to make a continuous low humming sound |
| Abhorred | Disgust and hatred |
| Quakers | People who belong to the religious society |
| Victuals | Food |
| Disreputable | not considered to be respectable |
| Apothecary | a medical professional who creates and dispenses medicine pharmacist |
| Miasma | unpleasant smell |
| Bilious | Affected by or associated with nausea or vomiting |
| Loitering | Stand or wait around without apparent purpose |
| Impudence | Not showing respect to another person |
| Oppressively | Extreme and unpleasant |
| Valise | a small traveling bag or suitcase |
| Regimental | relating to military regiment |
| Mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substantial materials such as stone or brick. |
| glaziers | a person whose profession is fitting glass into windows and doors. |
| scullery maid | A female in a large house who did jobs such as washing the dishes and prepared vegetables |
| fractious | irritable and quarrelsome |
| cajoling | persuade someone to do something by sustained coax or flatter |
| odoriferous | having or giving off a smell especial and unpleasant or distinctive one |
| destitute | without basic necessity of life |
| abates | cause to become smaller or less intense |
| yellow fever | a viral disease that is transmitted to a humans by the bites of infected mosquitows |
| salvage | to save form destruction damage or loss |
| assured | confident |
| dote | give a lot of love or attention |
| mythological | in an orderly and systematic matter |
| improvised | created and preformed without preparation |
| famished | Extremely hungry |
| exorbitant | unreasonably high |
| shroud | a length of cloth in which a dead person is wrapped for burial |
| relish | great enjoyment |
| Fatigue | extreme tiredness |
| vigilant | watchful especially avoid danger |
| haberdasher | some who sells men clothing |
| gaunt | extremely thin and bony |
| feign | pretend to be affected by |
| entourage | a group of people surrounding an important person |
| bunkum | nonsense |
| prosperity | condition of being successful and thriving |
| begrudge | give reluctantly or resentfully |
| endured | suffer patiently |
| Prohibited | forbid by law or rule |
| obligation | a duty or commitment |
| melancholy | sadness/ depressing of mind / sprint |
| putrid | decaying or threatening |
| ominous | menacing or threatening |
| fermenting | inciting or stirring up |
| fetid | smelling extremely unpleasant |
| scurrilous | insulting |
| cooperage | a business where wooden barrels are made |
| quill | pen made of a feather of large birds |
| rapscallions | mischievous persons |
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