Al Capone Does My Shirts Vocab Ch. 1 -15

an institution for the mentally ill

• circuit

• hospital

• asylum

• affliction

causing horror or disgust; horrible or grim

• grisly

• heinous

• affliction

• elaborate

Match the following

• brocade

• to walk heavily and loudly

• remedial

• terrible, hateful, or shockingly evil

• heinous

• common people; people not in the military

• tromp

• heavy, decorative cloth with a raised design often with gold or silver threads; needlepoint

• civilians

• intended to improve skills

famous for something immoral or bad

• brocade

• skirmish

• replicate

• notorious

not pleasant to hear; loud and high

detailed or complicated

• modest

• affliction

• elaborate

• remedial

Match the following

• affliction

• to copy or repeat something

• skirmish

• a state of pain, suffering, distress, or agony

• replicate

• intended to improve skills

• gangplank

• a flat board or bridge used to get on or off a ship

• remedial

• a short fight

the act of going around something

• circuit

• civilians

• cultivated

• replicate

well educated

• tromp

• louse

• grisly

• cultivated

a despicable person

• notorious

• louse

• heinous

• gangplank