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WorksheetsFever 1793 Vocab - Part I
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 17mins
“Picking it up by the tail, I carried the corpse to the front window and leaned out”
a food or snack
a dead body
to give up or surrender
a place to get medicine
“If not for Eliza’s fine victuals, and the hungry customers that bought them...”
a food or snack
a dead body
to give up or surrender
a place to get medicine
“I wanted to own an entire city block--a proper restaurant, an apothecary, maybe a school”
a food or snack
a gross smell
to give up or surrender
a place to get medicine
“It’s the source of a deadly miasma, a foul stench, indeed.”
a food or snack
a gross smell
to give up or surrender
toxic or sickening
“There are noxious fumes all around the district. Mark my words, it will be a killer yet.”
hanging around, wasting time
a gross smell
to give up or surrender
toxic or sickening
“Taking care of accounts was one territory that Mother conceded to me.”
hanging around, wasting time
an attacker
to give up or surrender
salty or spicy rather than sweet
“And do not let me hear of you loitering shamelessly in front of the Peale house”
hanging around, wasting time
an attacker
to give up or surrender
salty or spicy rather than sweet
“There was no savory to be found”
hanging around, wasting time
an attacker
to give up or surrender
salty or spicy rather than sweet
“someone grabbed my basket and spun me around. I clenched my fists and whiled to face my assailant”
hanging around, wasting time
an attacker
to give up or surrender
salty or spicy rather than sweet
“So tell me, Lucille, what have you been doing for company this tedious August?”
long and slow
a disease
tiredness or exhaustion
to jump back in horror
“All persons should avoid fatigue of the body and mind”
long and slow
a disease
tiredness or exhaustion
to jump back in horror
“...men who stood unafraid before British cannon run in fear from this foul pestilence”
a small, sharp, surgical knife
a disease
a small bowl
to jump back in horror
“I recoiled as she leaned over the bed and retched a foul-smelling black fluid...”
a small, sharp, surgical knife
a disease
a small bowl
to jump back in horror
“I flinched as the lancet flashed and blood from mother’s arm poured into the basin”
a small, sharp, surgical knife
a disease
a small bowl
to jump back in horror
“I flinched as the lancet flashed and blood from mother’s arm poured into the basin”
a small, sharp, surgical knife
a disease
a small bowl
to jump back in horror
“...the sun burned red as it mounted the sky. Another oppressively hot day.”
difficult to deal with
an attacker
secretly, carefully
toxic or sickening
“Perhaps Grandfather could inquire discreetly”
difficult to deal with
an attacker
secretly, carefully
toxic or sickening
