Healy Huck Finn Vocab
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Healy Huck Finn Vocab
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Dismal | depressing in character or appearance; gloomy; dreary; melancholy |
| Decent | according with custom or propriety; regular |
| Commenced | take the first step or steps in carrying out an action; to begin |
| Victuals | A stock or supply of foods |
| Middling | Of medium or moderate size, strength, quality; average |
| Fidgety | restless; impatient; uneasy |
| Considerable | rather large or great in size, distance, extent |
| Broad | having great (or a certain) extent |
| Skiff | A small sea-going boat, adapted for rowing and sailing |
| Carcass | The dead body of man or beast. |
| Ornery | having a difficult and contrary disposition; stubborn |
| Ingots | A mass of metal, such as a bar or block |
| Lath | a narrow thin strip of wood used as backing for plaster |
| Numbskull | a dull-witted or stupid person |
| Highfaluting | Absurdly pompous speech or writing |
| Frills | a trimming, as a strip of cloth or lace, gathered at one edge and left loose |
| Chinks | a crack, cleft, or fissure |
| Nabob | any very wealthy, influential, or powerful person |
| Palaver | to talk profusely and idly |
| Roust | to rouse or stir up, to raise or arouse |
| Abreast | side by side; beside each other in a line: They walked abreast down the street |
| Carcass | The dead body of man or beast. |
| Quicksilver | the metallic element mercury |
| Haggled | to bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner |
| Brash | offensively bold |
| Craw | a pouch in many birds and some lower animals that resemble a stomach for storage |
| Varmint | an objectionable or undesirable animal |
| Starboard | the right-hand side of or direction from a vessel or aircraft, facing forward |
| Careen | to lean, sway, or tip to one side while in motion: The car careened along |
| Plunder | to rob of goods or valuables by open force. The goods themselves |
| Gaudy | brilliantly or excessively showy; tastelessly showy |
| Dauphin | The title of the eldest son of the King of France |
| Aggravate | to make worse or more severe; intensify |
| Abolitionist | Applied specially, and probably originally, to persons seeking the abolition |
| Blubbering | The action of weeping profusely and noisily |
| Slouch | An awkward, slovenly, or ungainly man; a lubber, lout, and clown; also, a lazy, |
| Pensive | More generally: full of thought; meditative, reflective; sorrowfully thoughtful |
| Rack | to torture; distress acutely; torment: His body was racked with pain. |
| Impaired | weakened, diminished, or damaged: impaired hearing |
| Frivolous | not serious in content or attitude or behavior |
| Decanter | A vessel used for decanting or receiving decanted liquors: |
| Sideboard | A piece of dining-room furniture for holding side-dishes, wine, plate, etc |
| Junket | a pleasure excursion, as a picnic or outing |
| Pommel | handgrip formed by the raised front part of a saddle |
| Temperance | The practice or habit of restraining oneself in passion or desire |
| Cipher | To calculate, cast in the mind, think out |
| Shuck | A husk, pod, or shell; esp. the outer covering or stripping of Indian corn, |
| Oppression | he feeling of being heavily burdened, mentally or physically, by troubles, |
| Haughty | having or showing arrogant superiority to |
| Dissipate | to scatter in various directions; disperse; dispel |
| Histrionic | Of or belonging to stage-players, or to play-acting; theatrical |
| Muse | the divinity that acts as the source of an artist's inspiration |
| Commence | to begin (an action). |
| Brazen | shameless or impudent |
| Bray | the loud, harsh cry of a donkey |
| Soliloquy | uttering one's thoughts aloud without addressing any person |
| Recollection | The act of recalling to the memory |
| Bodkin | a dagger with a slender blade |
| Calamity | a great misfortune or disaster |
| Contagion | the communication of disease by direct or indirect contact |
| Hue | the quality of a color as determined by its dominant wavelength |
| Consummation | to bring to a state of perfection; fulfill |
| Ponderous | slow and laborious because of weight |
| Ponderous | slow and laborious because of weight |
| Imperative | absolutely necessary or required |
| Lanky | tall and thin and having long slender limbs |
| Acquit | to relieve from a charge of fault or crime; declare not guilty |
| Pluck | Courage, originally viewed as residing in the heart |
| Indifferent | marked by a lack of interest |
| Histrionic | Of or belonging to stage-players, or to play-acting; theatrical |
| Obsequies | A funeral rite or ceremony; a funeral. |
| Pallet | a bed or mattress of straw |
| Stealthy | characterized, or acting by stealth; furtive: stealthy footsteps. |
| Shoal | a place where a sea, river, or other body of water is shallow |
| Coarse | composed of relatively large parts or particles |
| Nigh | near in space, time, or relation: The time draws nigh |
| Trifling | of very little importance; trivial; insignificant |
| Fagged | to tire or weary by labor; exhaust |
| Cravat | a cloth, often made of or trimmed with lace, worn about the neck by men |
| Blubber | to weep profusely and noisily |
| Hew | to strike forcibly with an ax, sword, or other cutting instrument |
| Audacious | extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless; an audacious explorer. |
| Impudent | shamelessly forward, insolently disrespectful. |
| Putrefied | in an advanced state of decomposition |
| Embattled | beset with attackers or controversy or conflict |
| Addle | to muddle; to confuse (the brain); to spoil |
| Fret | to feel or express worry |
| Rummage | to search thoroughly or actively through |
| Huffy | easily offended; touchy |
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