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Vocab Test Fever 1793//Tale Of Two Cities Flashcards

1
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Define shift

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A woman’s chemise or slip

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2
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Define dosed

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To treat or application or agent

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3
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Define victuals

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Food or provisions for human beings

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4
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Define supped

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To take in small mouthfuls

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5
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Define pestle

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A tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar

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6
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Define stay

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A straight loose-fitting dress worn with or without a belt

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7
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Define miasma

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A dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere

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8
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Define bilious

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

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9
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Define liebchen

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German for sweetheart

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10
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Define demure

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Characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved

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11
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Define mangle

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A machine for smoothing or pressing clothes, household linen

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12
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Define almshouse

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

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13
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Define pestilence

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A contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating

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14
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Define dittany

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a Cretan plant, Origanum dictamnus, of the mint family, having spikes purple flowers and formerly believed to have medicinal qualities

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15
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Define jalap

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A twining eastern Mexican vine having tuberous roots that are dried, powdered, and used medicinally as a cathartic.

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16
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Define calomel

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A white, tasteless powder, used chiefly as a purgative and fungicide.

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17
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Define cajoling

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To persuade by flattering or promises

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18
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Define brambles

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A prickly shrub or brush

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19
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Define slovenly

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Untidy or unclean in appearance or habits

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20
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Define Destitute

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Without means of subsistence; lacking food, clothing, and shelter.

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21
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Define impudence

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The quality of being offensively bold

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22
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Define potters field

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A place for the burial of unknown or indigent people

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23
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Define wraith

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Something shadowy and insubstantial

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24
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Define Apothecary

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One that prepares and sells drugs and other medicines

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25
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Define the war

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American Revolution

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26
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Define Blanchards yellow balloon.

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First hot air balloon flight in America

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27
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Define grippe

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Influence

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28
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Define Peale, Charles Wilson

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Early American portrait painter

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29
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Define king George the III

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Monarchic of England during the revolutionary war

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30
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Define abhor

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To hate or despise

31
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Define loiter

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To hang around a place with no purpose

32
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Define robust.

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Healthy and strong

33
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Define fervent

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Showing intensity

34
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Define quarantine

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To isolate due to illness

35
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Define fractious

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Uncooperative, troublesome

36
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Define ominous

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Foreshadowing evil

37
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Define noxious

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Unhealthy, poisonous

38
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Define Ancien regime

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The pre-revolutionary monarchical, aristocratic rule of France

39
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Define barrister

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A lawyer who handles court cases

40
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Define chateau

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A French aristocrats country home

41
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Define Conciergerie

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A prison in Paris

42
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Define doll

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A disparaging term for women in the nineteenth century

43
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Define flambeau

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A torch

44
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Define fortnight

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Two weeks; fourteen days

45
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Define garret

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An attic or room on the top floor of a house or apartment

46
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Define guillotine

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A heavy blade held up by two posts which is dropped on the victims neck in order to behead the victim

47
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Define hackney-coach

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A coach for hire; an older equivalent of a taxi

48
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Define head drawer

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Man in charge of a hotel

49
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Define incarceration

A

Imprisonment

50
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Define jackal

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An accomplice who assists in menial or slightly disreputable acts

51
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Define letter de cachet

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A sealed letter, especially from a sovereign, ordering arbitrary imprisonment

52
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Define mail coach

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Before the introduction of railways there were two types of coaches on English roads: the mail coach and the stage coach. The mail coaches were subsidized by the post office, whereas stage coaches were privately owned

53
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Define miller

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A man whose profession is to grind wheat.

54
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Define old Bailey

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The old Bailey court, the central court where criminals were prosecuted

55
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Define pike

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A long spear

56
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Define postillion

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Man who rides the near horse of the leaders to guide the horses drawing a coach

57
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Define punch

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A sliced fruit beverage with an alcoholic base

58
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Define quartering

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An antiquated punishment for criminals involving dismembering them into four parts

59
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Define quid

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Slang for a pound (British currency)

60
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Define Resurrection-Man

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A person who digs up dead bodies to sell parts of them to scientists

61
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Define Saint Antoine

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A district of Paris very active in the revolution, especially in the storming of the Bastille

62
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Define scrivener

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Scribe or copier

63
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Define shoe

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Type of brakes under a carriage

64
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Define snuff

A

Powdered tobacco inhaled through the nose

65
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Define solicitor

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A lawyer who handles wills and estates and most matters not involving a court

66
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Define spectre

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A ghost or apparition

67
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Define temple bar

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A London landmark located near Tellsons Bank

68
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Define Tower of London

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The state prison in London

69
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Define tumbrill

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A crude two-wheeled cart used to carry prisoners to be executed in the French Revolution

70
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Define turnkey

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A jailor

71
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Define Versailles

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A city southwest of Paris known for the opulent French royal palace built for King Louis XIV

72
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Define ward

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Someone for whom someone else has responsibility, especially financially

73
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Define Whitefriars

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In dickens’s time, a disreputable district of London

74
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Define wood-sawyer

A

A man who chops wood

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