A Long Way from Chicago Vocab Quiz

Match the following

• the comfort you feel with consoled in times of disappointment

• privy

• a room or building equipped with toilets

• pauper

• an eccentric, elderly man

• reprobate

• a person who is very poor

• consolation

• a person without moral scruples

• codger

Match the following

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

• pilfer

• an optical illusion

• galvanized iron

• make off with the belongings of others

• mirage

• unpredictability excited

• settee

• a small sofa

• skittish

Match the following

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

• larceny

• the act of taking something from someone unlawfully

• reek

• not circulating or flowing

• stagnant

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

• puttee

• to turn away or aside

• avert

Match the following

• make light, repeated taps on a surface

• wring

• an open horse-drawn carriage

• hopper

• twist and press out of shape

• pummel

• strike, usually with a fist

• rap

• funnel shaped receptacle; contents pass by into receptacle below

• buckboard

Match the following

• a surrounding or nearby region

• rummage sale

• wear away by rubbing

• centennial

• a small overnight bag

• fray

• completing a period of a 100 years

• valise

• a sale of donated items

• vicinity

Match the following

• four performers or singers who perform together

• quartet

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

• vermin

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

• scrapple