Chasing Lincons Killer Vocab Flashcards
Fervently
Having or showing great warmth or intensity of spirit, feeling, or enthusiasm.
Scourge
A person or thing that causes trouble and suffering.
Malice
The intention or desire to do evil.
Adversary
Ones opponent in a contest, conflict or dispute.
Illuminate
Light up.
Confederacy
A league or alliance, especially one of confederate states.
An alliance of people or groups formed for an illicit purpose.
Tyrant
A cruel and oppressive ruler.
Proprietors
The owner of a business, or a holder of property.
Partition
The action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.
Precede
Come before something in time.
Come before in order or position.
Provoked
Stimulate or incite someone to do or feel something, especially by arousing anger in them.
Deliberately make someone annoyed or angry.
Stimulate or give rise to a reaction or emotion, - typically a strong or unwelcome one - in someone.
Inauguration
The beginning or introduction of a system, policy, or period.
The formal admission of someone to office.
A ceremony to mark the beginning of something.
Vengeance
punishment inflicted or retribution exacted for an injury or wrong.
Avenged
inflict harm in return for (an injury or wrong done to oneself or another.
Coagulated
to cause (a fluid) to change to a solid or semisolid state.
Accomplice
a person who helps another commit a crime.
Bewildered
becoming perplexed and confused.
Regiment
a permanent unit of an army typically commanded by a colonel and divided into several companies, squadrons, or batteries and often into two battalions.
Cavalry
(in the past) soldiers who fought on horseback.
modern soldiers who fight in armored vehicles.
Epidemic
a widespread occurrence of an infectious disease in a community at a particular time.
Thicket
A dense group of bushes or trees.
Fugitive
A person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest or persecution.
Confided
Tell someone about a secret or private matter while trusting them not to repeat it to others.
Frantic
Wild or distraught with fear, anxiety, or other emotion.
