Vocab Test Fever 1793//Tale Of Two Cities

Question 1

Define shift

Answer 1

A woman’s chemise or slip

Question 2

Define dosed

Answer 2

To treat or application or agent

Question 3

Define victuals

Answer 3

Food or provisions for human beings

Question 4

Define supped

Answer 4

To take in small mouthfuls

Question 5

Define pestle

Answer 5

A tool for pounding or grinding substances in a mortar

Question 6

Define stay

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Define miasma

Answer 7

A dangerous, foreboding, or deathlike influence or atmosphere

Question 8

Define bilious

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Define liebchen

Answer 9

German for sweetheart

Question 10

Define demure

Answer 10

Characterized by shyness and modesty; reserved

Question 11

Define mangle

Answer 11

A machine for smoothing or pressing clothes, household linen

Question 12

Define almshouse

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Define pestilence

Answer 13

A contagious or infectious epidemic disease that is virulent and devastating

Question 14

Define dittany

Answer 14

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

Question 15

Define jalap

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Define calomel

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Define cajoling

Answer 17

To persuade by flattering or promises

Question 18

Define brambles

Answer 18

A prickly shrub or brush

Question 19

Define slovenly

Answer 19

Untidy or unclean in appearance or habits

Question 20

Define Destitute

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Define impudence

Answer 21

The quality of being offensively bold

Question 22

Define potters field

Answer 22

A place for the burial of unknown or indigent people

Question 23

Define wraith

Answer 23

Something shadowy and insubstantial

Question 24

Define Apothecary

Answer 24

One that prepares and sells drugs and other medicines

Question 25

Define the war

Answer 25

American Revolution

Question 26

Define Blanchards yellow balloon.

Answer 26

First hot air balloon flight in America

Question 27

Define grippe

Answer 27

Influence

Question 28

Define Peale, Charles Wilson

Answer 28

Early American portrait painter

Question 29

Define king George the III

Answer 29

Monarchic of England during the revolutionary war

Question 30

Define abhor

Answer 30

To hate or despise

Question 31

Define loiter

Answer 31

To hang around a place with no purpose

Question 32

Define robust.

Answer 32

Healthy and strong

Question 33

Define fervent

Answer 33

Showing intensity

Question 34

Define quarantine

Answer 34

To isolate due to illness

Question 35

Define fractious

Answer 35

Uncooperative, troublesome

Question 36

Define ominous

Answer 36

Foreshadowing evil

Question 37

Define noxious

Answer 37

Unhealthy, poisonous

Question 38

Define Ancien regime

Answer 38

The pre-revolutionary monarchical, aristocratic rule of France

Question 39

Define barrister

Answer 39

A lawyer who handles court cases

Question 40

Define chateau

Answer 40

A French aristocrats country home

Question 41

Define Conciergerie

Answer 41

A prison in Paris

Question 42

Define doll

Answer 42

A disparaging term for women in the nineteenth century

Question 43

Define flambeau

Answer 43

A torch

Question 44

Define fortnight

Answer 44

Two weeks; fourteen days

Question 45

Define garret

Answer 45

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

Question 46

Define guillotine

Answer 46

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

Question 47

Define hackney-coach

Answer 47

A coach for hire; an older equivalent of a taxi

Question 48

Define head drawer

Answer 48

Man in charge of a hotel

Question 49

Define incarceration

Answer 49

Imprisonment

Question 50

Define jackal

Answer 50

An accomplice who assists in menial or slightly disreputable acts

Question 51

Define letter de cachet

Answer 51

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

Question 52

Define mail coach

Answer 52

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

Question 53

Define miller

Answer 53

A man whose profession is to grind wheat.

Question 54

Define old Bailey

Answer 54

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

Question 55

Define pike

Answer 55

A long spear

Question 56

Define postillion

Answer 56

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

Question 57

Define punch

Answer 57

A sliced fruit beverage with an alcoholic base

Question 58

Define quartering

Answer 58

An antiquated punishment for criminals involving dismembering them into four parts

Question 59

Define quid

Answer 59

Slang for a pound (British currency)

Question 60

Define Resurrection-Man

Answer 60

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

Question 61

Define Saint Antoine

Answer 61

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

Question 62

Define scrivener

Answer 62

Scribe or copier

Question 63

Define shoe

Answer 63

Type of brakes under a carriage

Question 64

Define snuff

Answer 64

Powdered tobacco inhaled through the nose

Question 65

Define solicitor

Answer 65

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

Question 66

Define spectre

Answer 66

A ghost or apparition

Question 67

Define temple bar

Answer 67

A London landmark located near Tellsons Bank

Question 68

Define Tower of London

Answer 68

The state prison in London

Question 69

Define tumbrill

Answer 69

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

Question 70

Define turnkey

Answer 70

A jailor

Question 71

Define Versailles

Answer 71

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

Question 72

Define ward

Answer 72

Someone for whom someone else has responsibility, especially financially

Question 73

Define Whitefriars

Answer 73

In dickens's time, a disreputable district of London

Question 74

Define wood-sawyer

Answer 74

A man who chops wood