Quizlet Johnny Tremain Vocabulary

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  1. animosity: a hostile feeling or act
  2. apprentice: one bound by legal agreement to work for another for a specific amount of time in return for instruction in a trade, art, or business
  3. arrogance: overbearing pride
  4. artisan: a skilled manual worker
  5. autocratic: a person with unlimited power or authority
  6. clamor: a loud outcry; a hubbub
  7. commandeer: to seize for military use; confiscate
  8. conspirators: one that engages in a conspiracy
  9. constable: a peace officer with less authority and smaller jurisdiction than a sheriff, empowered to serve writs and warrants and make arrests
  10. fatique: physical or mental weariness resulting from exertion
  11. fatuous: vacuously, smugly, and unconsciously foolish
  12. flaccid: lacking vigor or energy
  13. forlorn: nearly hopeless; desperate
  14. gallows: a device usually consisting of two upright poles supporting a crossbeam from which a noose is suspended and used for execution by hanging
  15. gaudy: showy in a tasteless or vulgar way
  16. grenadier: a soldier who is a member of a special corps or regiment
  17. indolent: habitually lazy
  18. instigated: to stir up; forment
  19. knave: a male servant
  20. lucid: mentally sound; sane or rational
  21. nonchalance: casual lack of concern
  22. placate: to allay the anger of, especially by making concessions
  23. poultice: a soft moist mass of bread, meal, clay, or other adhesive substance, usually heated, spread on cloth, and applied to warm, moisten, or stimulate an aching or inflamed part of the body
  24. prodigal: rashly or wastefully extravagant
  25. prodigiously: impressively great in size, force, or extent
  26. prophecy: a prediction of the future, made under divine inspiration
  27. protuberant: swelling outward; bulging
  28. scepter: a staff held by a sovereignas an emblem of authority
  29. sortie: an armed attack, especially one made from a place surrounded by enemy forces
  30. spinet: a small, compact upright piano
  31. tankard: a large drinking cup having a single handle and often a hinged cover
  32. timid: fearful and hesitant
  33. treason: violation of allegiance toward one's country or sovereign, especially the betrayal of one's country by waging war against it or by consciously and purposely acting to aid its enemies
  34. volley: a simultaneous discharge of a number of missiles