Chapters 1-7 Flashcards
Dreamily, wistfully, thoughtfully
Pensiveness
Dignified behavior, speech, dress
Decorum
Line
Queue
A gas used to sedate patients for surgical procedures
Chloroform
Briefly, forcefully, meaningfully
Pithily
Searching for food/drink
Foraging
Using few words;expressing much in a few words
Laconically
A fit, an angry outburst
Apoplexy
The top of a wall or structure
Parapet
A blessing
Benediction
In a dazed state, often associated with too much drink
Stupor
Formal rejection of something
Renunciation
Rot
Putrefaction
Impoverished, poor, needy
Indigent
Pale yellowish cast to the skin, unhealthy hue to the skin
Sallow
Dog or base person
Cur
Suddenly done without thought
Precipitously
An interrogator, one who questions harshly
Inquisitor
Strict disciplinarians
Martinets
Party, celebration
Fete
Where nuns live isolated from society
Cloister
Small battle
Skirmish
Unsettled by something; disturbed;to lose ones composure
Disconcerted
Spotted, blotchy
Mottled
Displaying or indicative of an offensively condescending manner
Contemptously
Attraction, seduction
Allurement
Excluded from the group
Ostracized
Hearty, enthusiastic enjoyment of food and or drink; to speak with enthusiasm
Gusto
Taxes
Levies
Comfort
Solace
Hypothesis; guess
Conjecture
A sharp or bitter odor or taste; pungent
Acrid
Fear of confined spaces
Claustrophobia
Incapable of being satisfied
Insatiable
Struck dumb; amazed by something; unable to speak
Stupefied
Tame
Docile
Morally low; without estimable personal qualities; dishonorable
Baseness
Stale; unmoving; stuck in one place
Stagnant
Bathrooms
Latrines
Person who has ambitions to achieve something or become something
Aspirants
Crazy quest; from Don Quixote
Quixotic
Without harm or injury
Unscathed
Severe, sometimes unstoppable bleeding
Hemorrhages
Put up in; a civilian house used to lodge soldiers
Billeted
A blob or mass of something
Dollop