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Chapters 1-9 Vocab.

Chapters 1-9

WordDefinition
Pollard Trees with their branches cut back to promote new growth
Wittles Vittles, dialect for victuals, food
Battery A military fortification equipped with guns
Gibbet A structure like a gallows, from which the corpses of criminals would be hung as a warning to others
Connubial Of marriage
*Trenchant Incisive; forceful
*Consternation Great fear or shock that makes one feel helpless or bewildered
Garret An attic
Hulks An old, no longer seaworthy ship used as a prison
Interlocutor A person taking part in a conversation
Imprecations Curses
Penitentials Clothing that a penitent person might wear
Accoucheur A male midwife
*Appropriated Took for one's own without permission
Corn-chandler A grain merchant
*Declamation A dramatic or blustering speech
*Presentiment A feeling that something unpleasant will soon happen; a foreboding
*Intimated Announced formally
Hypothetical Based on supposition
Homily A sermon
*Commiserating Showing sorrow or pity for
Contumaciously In a stubbornly disobedient way
*Spasmodic Characteristic of a spasm; sudden, violent, and temporary; frenzied
*Omnipotent All powerful in a domineering or overbearing manner
*Vivaciously In a lively manner
*Apprehension An anxious feeling of foreboding; dread
Finger-Post A directional sign shaped like a pointing finger
Execrating Cursing
Pilfering Stealing
*Exonerated Declared blameless and free of guilt
*Perspicuity Clarity in statement or expression
*Sagaciously In a keenly perceptive manner
Farinaceous Consisting of flour
*Discomfited Made to feel uneasy
Beggar my Neighbor A card game in which the object is to acquire all of your opponent's cards; to beggar means "to make poor" but also "to make seem inadequate"
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