Tom Sawyer - Chapter 6 Vocab
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17 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 odious | very displeasing; hateful; offensive |
| sash | frame for the glass of a window; part of a window that can be moved to open or close a window |
| mortified | wound the feelings of; make to feel ashamed ; humiliate |
| expectorate | to cough up and spit out |
| pariah | any person or animal generally despised; an outcast |
| animosity | hostile feelings; dislike |
| caricature | imitation of something by ridiculous exaggeration |
| derrick | a machine with a long arm used to lift something |
| portentous | indicating evil to come; ominous; threatening |
| ostentation | showing off; display intended to impress others |
| animosity | hostile feelings; dislike, angry & hateful feelings (Indians vs French) |
| avaricious | very greedy |
| furtive | sneaky and sly |
| intervening | to come between disputing people |
| captivity | jail or zoo |
| colicky | babies or horses who feel physically ill and they cry a lot |
| disdain | To consider someone below beneath oneself. (the way that the KKK treats blacks or Jews) |
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