TKAM Vocabulary Chapters 1-3

hazy; vague; uncertain

• nebulous

• stricture

• assuage

• dictum

immoral or grossly unfair behavior

• unsullied

• inquity

• populace

• truant

absent without permission

• discernable

• erratic

• truant

• apothecary

distinguishable; able to tell apart

• wallow

• begrudge

• morbid

• discernable

something that restrains; negative criticism

• stricture

• dictum

• dispatch

• teem

showing contempt toward sacred things, (profanity=cussing)

• erratic

• profane

• taciturn

• unsullied

(adj.) not regular or consistent; different from what is ordinarily expected; undependable

• gouge

• morbid

• erratic

• apprehensive

the general public; the population

• discernable

• truant

• foray

• populace

strong disapproval, typically on moral grounds

• disapprobation

• entail

• vexation

• dispensation

to make something unpleasant less severe

• apothecary

• assuage

• contemptuous

• fractious