A Long Way from Chicago Vocab Quiz

Match the following

• a person who is very poor

• pauper

• the comfort you feel with consoled in times of disappointment

• privy

• a person without moral scruples

• reprobate

• an eccentric, elderly man

• codger

• a room or building equipped with toilets

• consolation

Match the following

• unpredictability excited

• settee

• an optical illusion

• skittish

• iron that is coated in zinc to protect it from rust

• galvanized iron

• make off with the belongings of others

• mirage

• a small sofa

• pilfer

Match the following

• give off smoke, fumes, warm vapor, steam, etc.

• avert

• a strip of cloth wound around the leg to form a legging

• stagnant

• to turn away or aside

• larceny

• the act of taking something from someone unlawfully

• reek

• not circulating or flowing

• puttee

Match the following

• strike, usually with a fist

• buckboard

• an open horse-drawn carriage

• wring

• twist and press out of shape

• rap

• make light, repeated taps on a surface

• hopper

• funnel shaped receptacle; contents pass by into receptacle below

• pummel

Match the following

• a small overnight bag

• fray

• wear away by rubbing

• vicinity

• a sale of donated items

• centennial

• a surrounding or nearby region

• rummage sale

• completing a period of a 100 years

• valise

Match the following

• scraps of meats boiled with cornmeal and shaped into loaves for frying

• scrapple

• any of the various small animals or insects that are pests

• quartet

• four performers or singers who perform together

• vermin