Blood on the River Chpt. 1 - 9 Vocab.

An attendant or officer in a royal or noble household.

• plantations

• yeoman

• accountant

• teacher

A frame usually of two upright post and a transverse beam from which a noose is suspended and used for executions by hanging

• gallows

• cathedral

• slops

• blight

To move slowly

• ruckus

• converge

• lumber

• sprint

A loose smock or overall

• jeans

• traitors

• blight

• slops

To move toward one point or one another; come together, to meet

• blight

• ruckus

• lull

• converge

Continued effort to do or achieve something despite difficulties, failure, or opposition,

• inclination

• perseverance

• converge

• eavesdrop

A noisy fight

• mock

• ruckus

• lumber

• insult

A place with a high ceiling or canopy, containing a cathedra

• cringe

• dole

• cathedral

• exhort

A sickness or disease on plants

• blight

• traitors

• scowl

• lumber

To predict the future

• prophecy

• writhing

• taunting

• yeoman