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Chapter 1-4 Vocab
TKAMB
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Apothecary | a druggist; a pharmacist |
| Assuaged | to make milder or less severe |
| Indigenous | orginating in and characteristic of a particular region or country |
| Malevolent | wishing evil or harm to another or others |
| Mortification | a feeling of humiliation or shame |
| Piety | reverence for God or devout fulfillment of religious obligation |
| Sojourn | a temporary stay |
| Unsullied | not soiled |
| Vexations | the act of vexing |
| Wallowing | to roll about or lie in water, snow, mud, dust |
| Abominable | repugnantly hateful; detestable |
| Amiable | having or showing pleasant |
| Auspicious | promising success; propitious; opportune |
| Contentious | tending to argument or strife |
| Dispensation | an act or instance of dispensing |
| Expansively | having a wide range or extent |
| Fractious | refractory or unruly |
| Persevere | to persist in anything undertaken |
| Tranquility | quality or state of being tranquil; calmness |
| Tyranny | arbitrary or unrestrained exercise of power; despotic abuse of authority |