Uprising Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Shirtwaist | a blouse with buttons down the front |
| Peddler | someone who travels about selling his wares (as on the streets or at carnivals) |
| Tepid | lukewarm |
| Abominable | horrible or unpleasant |
| Coverlet | bedspread |
| Scab | someone who works (or provides workers) during a strike |
| Picketing | patrolling of a business site by workers who are on strike |
| Chauffeur | a man paid to drive a privately owned car |
| Socialist | a political advocate of socialism |
| Bedraggled | limp and soiled as if dragged in the mud |
| Gaunt | thin and bony |
| Threadbare | having the nap worn away so that the threads show through |
| Suffrage | the right to vote |
| Tenement | a building in which several families rent rooms or apartments, often with little sanitation or safety |
| Greenhorn | An inexperienced person |
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