English Vocab
Terms
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- apothecary
- an early form of pharmacist who could prescribe drugs
- Cracklin' bread
- cornbread with pork rhines in the batter
- mimosa
- tree with pink blossoms
- taciturn
- almost always silent
- kudzu
- a fast growing vine that overtakes other plants found in the southeastern US
- bout
- fight
- malevolent
- evil
- melancholy
- sad or gloomy
- apoplectic
- a condition of sudden paralysis; stroke
- monosyllabic
- a one syllable word
- ramrod
- straight; severely rigid
- ramshackle
- about to fall apart
- strictures
- conditions or rules
- foray
- going to do a unusual activity
- Indian-heads
- a penny
- waning
- fading
- beadle
- a low-level city official hired to keep the peace
- malignant
- dangerous evil
- benign
- kind and gentle
- predilection
- a preference or preferred way of doing something
- dictum
- a statement of principle
- unsullied
- untouched
- attributes
- characteristics
- edification
- instruction or education
- secede
- to withdraw formally from a religious or political organization
- persevere
- to "hang in there"; to carry on in spite of circumstances
- cordiality
- sincere affection and kindness
- eerily
- mysterious
- rudiments
- something to be learned; fundamentals
- livid
- angry
- indigenous
- a native
- morbid
- grotesque; horrible
- gaped
- to stare with mouth wide open
- amiable
- friendly
- impudent
- shamelessly bold
- prowess
- superior ability
- feeble
- weak; fragile
- tacit
- a treaty that has been silently agreed upon
- rigid
- stiff
- entailment
- a legal situation regarding the use of inherited property