Chapter 1 Vocabulary

Question 0

Apothecary

Answer 0

And early form of a pharmacist, could also prescribe drugs

Question 1

Ambled

Answer 1

To walk at a slow leisurely pace

Question 2

Assuaged

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Lessen;to calm

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Beadle

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Minor city official, lower in rank then either a sheriff or police men; main duties around preserving ordervery simple functions such as trials and Townhall meetings

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Brethren

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members of a particular church or sect

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Corset

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Ladies undergarment designed to create a slimmer waist, larger bust and hips

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Dictum

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Formal statement of principle

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Domiciled

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Place where person lives (you are domiciled here)

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Eaves

Answer 8

Lower edges of the roof which usually projects beyond the side of a building

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Foray

Answer 9

make a foray, you do something or go somewhere that is unusual or not normal for you

Question 10

Human chattels

Answer 10

Slaves

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Impotent

Answer 11

Powerless

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Malevolent

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Evil

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Methodist

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Members of a branch of a Protestant Christian denomination

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Picket

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Pointed or sharpen pole or stake

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Piety

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Devotion religious duties and practices

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Prediliction

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Preference or preferred way to do something

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Ramred

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Rigid, severe, straut

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Repertoire

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Special skills a person had

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Vapid

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Boring or uninteresting

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Scold

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someone who often finds fault with people or things

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Spittoon

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Jar-like container to spit tobacco juice into

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Strictures

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Conditions or rules

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Taciturn

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Almost always silent

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Veranda

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Portico with the porch with the roof