Huck Finn
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Fetch | to go or come after and bring or take back |
| Betwixt | between |
| Ransom | payment for the release of someone |
| Slogan | a favorite saying of a sect or political group |
| Quarry | a person who is the aim of an attack (especially a victim of ridicule or exploitation) by some hostile person or influence |
| Parcel | an extended area of land; a thing or collection of things wrapped in paper in order to be carried or sent by mail |
| Abolition | doing away with; putting an end to |
| Calico | having sections or patches colored differently and usually brightly; coarse cloth with a bright print |
| Dilemma | state of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options |
| Lantern | light in a transparent protective case |
| Obituary | a notice of someone's death |
| Ornery | uncooperative and irritable; stubborn |
| Coax | To persuade or urge in a gentle way |
| Cravat | piece of linen worn as a necktie |
| Mortification | an instance in which you are caused to lose your prestige or self-respect |
| Pewter | any of various alloys of tin with small amounts of other metals (especially lead) |
| Sermon | an address of a religious nature (usually delivered during a church service) |
| Commence | set in motion, cause to start |
| Trance | a state of mind in which consciousness is fragile and voluntary action is poor or missing |
| Spiritual | concerned with or affecting the spirit or soul; lacking material body or form or substance |
| Tract | a brief treatise on a subject of interest; an area of indefinite extent, typically a large one |
| Counterfeit | a copy that is represented as the original |
| Carcass | the dead body of an animal especially one slaughtered and dressed for food |
| Cavern | a large cave or a large chamber in a cave |
| Reticule | a woman's small handbag, typically having a drawstring |
| Ominous | unfavorable, threatening, of bad omen |
| Obliged | to do as [someone] asks or desires in order to help or please them |
| Kin | group of people related by blood or marriage |
| Hoist | raise or haul up with or as if with mechanical help |
| Pious | devoutly religious |
| Mesmerize | attract strongly, as if with a magnet; to fascinate or hypnotize |
| Resurrection | revival from inactivity and disuse |
| Consequence | the outcome of an event especially as relative to an individual |
| Discrimination | unfair treatment of a person or group on the basis of prejudice; recognition and understanding of the difference between one thing and another |
| Victuals | any substance that can be used as food |
| Oath | a solemn promise, usually invoking a divine witness, regarding your future acts or behavior |
| Spite | feeling a need to see others suffer; hurt the feelings of |
| Clapboard | a house with outer walls covered in such pieces of wood; a long, thin, flat piece of wood with edges horizontally overlapping in series, used to cover the outer walls of buildings. |
| Parson | a person authorized to conduct religious worship |
| Glimpse | a quick look |
| Vial | a small bottle that contains a drug (especially a sealed sterile container for injection by needle) |
| Prevarication | the deliberate act of deviating from the truth |
| Pendulum | something that hangs and swings back and forth |
| Temperance | abstaining from excess |
| Soliloquy | a (usually long) dramatic speech intended to give the illusion of unspoken reflections |
| Penitentiary | prison |
| Posterity | future generations |
| Bondage | slavery; any state of being bound or held down |
| Providence | the prudence and care exercised by someone in the management of resources |
| Calvin Ma | the greatest person to ever be born on this earth |
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