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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 of Friends |
| victuals | food |
| disreputable | Not considered to be respctable in character or apperance |
| apothecary | A medical professonial who creates and dispenses medicine pharmacist |
| miasma | unpleasent smell |
| billous | affected by or associated without appernt purpose |
| loitering | stand or wait around without apperant purpose |
| impudence | Not shoing respect to another person |
| oppressively | Extreme and unpleasent |
| Valise | A small traveling bag or suitcase |
| Regimental | relating to a millitary regiment |
| mason | a skilled worker who builds by laying units of substanital material |
| scullery maid | a female servent in a large house who did jobs such as washing dishes and perparing vegtables |
| fractious | irritable and quarrelsome |
| cajoling | persuade someone to do something by sustained coaxing or flattery |
| oduferous | having or giving of a smell, especially an unpleasent or distinctive one |
| destitute | without the basic necessities of life |
| abates | cause to become smaller or less intense |
| yellow fever | a viral diases that is transmitted to humans by the bites of infected mosquitoes |
| Salvage | To save from descrtuction, damage, or loss |
| assured | confident |
| dote | Give alot of love or attention |
| methodically | in an orderly and systematic manner |
| improvised | created and performed without preparition |
| famished | extremely hungry |
| exorbitatnt | unreasonably high |
| shroud | a length of cloth in which a dead person is wrapped for burial |
| relish | Great Ejoyment |
| prohibited | forbid by the law or rule |
| obligation | a duty or commitment |
| melancholy | sadness/depression of mind/spirit |
| putrid | decaying or rotting |
| ominous | menacing or threatening |
| fermenting | inciting or stirring up |
| fetid | smelling extremly unpleasent |
| scurrilous | insulting |
| cooperage | a business where wooden barrels are made |
| quill | pen made from a feather of a large bird |
| rapscallions | mischievous persons |
| fatigue | extreme tiredness |
| viligilant | watchful, especially to avoid danger |
| haberdasher | someone who sells men's 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 succesful and thriving |
| begrudge | give reluctantly or resentfully |
| endured | suffer patiently |
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