An Acquaintance with Darkness vocabulary (Hardee)

Those people who supported the Confederacy on the homefront during the Civil War were often called:

• Rebels

• Secesh

• Yanks

• Yankees

likely to cause people to argue or disagree

• tension

• extend

• attention

• contentious

Tags

CCSS.L.6.5C

CCSS.RL.6.4

 a woman who flirts to get what she wants

• coquette
• misogynist
• harangue
• affinity

waste products, often found in the streets before there was a sewage system

• milquetoast

• exhort

• offal

• guile

straightforward and direct

• scapegoat

• premonition

• genial

• forthright

Tags

CCSS.L.1.6

CCSS.L.3.6

A corpse

• cadaver

• cavier

• chandler

• corps

used to describe former Southern slaves that were connected with the Union Army

• Secesh

• Runaways

• Buffalo Soldiers

• Contrabands

when the bank takes possession of a mortgaged property as a result of the owner's failure to keep up their mortgage payments.

• proprietor

• foreclose

• hunkered

annoyed by unimportant things, easily irritated and upset

• transcend

• petulant

• unctuous

• lurid

anything which annoys or gives trouble

• bail

• nuisance

• agangplank

• berths