Fever 1793 vocab

Question 1

Dosed

Answer 1

To treat with an application or agent

Question 2

Victuals

Answer 2

Food or provisions for human beings

Question 3

Supped

Answer 3

To take in small mouthfuls

Question 4

Prestle

Answer 4

A tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar

Question 5

Miasma

Answer 5

Hey dangerous foreboding or deathlike influence or atmosphere

Question 6

Bilious

Answer 6

Suffering from caused by or attended by trouble with the bile or liver

Question 7

Liebchen

Answer 7

German for sweetheart

Question 8

Demure

Answer 8

Characterized by shyness and modesty reserved

Question 9

Mangle

Answer 9

A machine for smoothing oppressing close household linen

Question 10

The war

Answer 10

American Revolution

Question 11

Blanchards yellow balloon

Answer 11

First hot air balloon flight in America

Question 12

Grippe

Answer 12

Influence

Question 13

Peale,Charles Wilson

Answer 13

Early American portrait painter

Question 14

King George 111

Answer 14

Monarch of England during the revolutionary war

Question 15

Loiter

Answer 15

To hang around a place with no purpose

Question 16

Abhor

Answer 16

To hate or despise

Question 17

Robust

Answer 17

Healthy and strong

Question 18

Fervent

Answer 18

Showing intensity

Question 19

Quarantine

Answer 19

To isolate due to illness

Question 20

Fractious

Answer 20

Uncooperative troublesome

Question 21

Ominous

Answer 21

Foreshadowing evil

Question 22

Noxious

Answer 22

Unhealthy poisonous

Question 23

Almshouse

Answer 23

A house endowed by private charity for the reception and support of the aged or in firm poor

Question 24

Pestilence

Answer 24

A contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is devastating

Question 25

Dittany

Answer 25

A Creech and plant of the mint family having spikes of purple flower informally believed to have medical qualities

Question 26

Jalap and calomel

Answer 26

It twisting Eastern Mexican vine having tumorous roots that are dried powder and usually medically as cathartic

Question 27

Cajoling

Answer 27

To persuade by flattery or promises

Question 28

Brambles

Answer 28

A prickly shrub or bush

Question 29

Slovenly

Answer 29

Untidy or unclean in appearance or habits

Question 30

Destitute

Answer 30

Without means of subsidence lacking food clothing and shelter

Question 31

Impudence

Answer 31

The quality of being offensively bold

Question 32

Potters field

Answer 32

A place for the burial of unknown or in Digest persons

Question 33

Wraith

Answer 33

Something shadowy and in substanceal

Question 34

Apothecary

Answer 34

One that prepares and sells drugs and other medicines

Question 35

Stays and shift

Answer 35

A straight loose fitting dress warm with or without a belt a woman’s slip