Chapters 1-4 Vocab

Question 1

apothecary

Answer 1

a pharmacist, or druggist

Question 2

taciturn

Answer 2

usually silent, uncommunicative

Question 3

collards

Answer 3

a vegetable, a kind of kale

Question 4

veranda

Answer 4

an open porch along the side of a house

Question 5

predilection

Answer 5

preference

Question 6

indigenous

Answer 6

native

Question 7

revelations

Answer 7

striking disclosures

Question 8

entailment

Answer 8

a restriction on the inheritance of a piece of land

Question 9

fractious

Answer 9

irritable, difficult to control

Question 10

disapprobation

Answer 10

disapproval

Question 11

flivver

Answer 11

a small, cheap automobile

Question 12

scuppernongs

Answer 12

golden green grapes

Question 13

contemptuous

Answer 13

disrespectful

Question 14

entity

Answer 14

something that has a real existence

Question 15

nebulous

Answer 15

hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused

Question 16

contentious

Answer 16

causing, involving, or characterized by argument/controversy

Question 17

assuaged

Answer 17

to make milder or less severe

Question 18

perservere

Answer 18

continue a course of action even when difficult

Question 19

sojourn

Answer 19

to stay somewhere temporarily

Question 20

piety

Answer 20

the quality of being religious

Question 21

auspicious

Answer 21

conducive (making a certain situation or outcome likely or possible) to success, favorable

Question 22

gingerly

Answer 22

in a careful or cautious manner