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fever 1793
Term | Definition |
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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 |