Literature Vocab
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- rural
- of or relating to the country, country people or life, agriculture.
- fret
- to make or become worried, to eat into or wear away, an irritated or worried state, an ornamental design short lines or bars.
- goiter
- a swelling on the front of a neck caused by enlargement or the thyroid gland.
- threshhold
- to seperate seed from harvest plant especially by using a machine or tool.
- linted
- a horizontal piece across the top of an opening that carries the weight of the structure above it.
- yoke
- a wooden bar or frame by which two work animals are joined at their heads or necks for pulling a plow or load., a frame fitted to a person's shoulders to carry a load in two equal prtions, a clamp or brace that holds or unites two parts, to attach, to put to work.
- tackroom
- a room that holds rools in it.
- chamber
- a room in a house and especially a bedroom, an enclosed space or compartment, to place or hold in, a group of people organized into a lawmaking body.
- capstan
- a device that consists of a drum to which a rope is fastened and that is used especially on ships for moving or raising weights.
- corn cratch
- a silo that holds corn.
- tribulations
- distress or suffering resulting from a cruel or unjust threatment or misfortune, a trying experience.
- bay
- a section or compartment of a building or vehicle. To bark with deep tones, to cry out, shout. The position of an animal or person forced to face pursuers when it is impossible to escape, an inlet body of water that is usually smaller than a gulf, any of several shrubs or trees resembling a laurel.
- scythe
- a tool that has a curved blade on a long curved handle and is used for morning grass or grain by hand.
- fester
- a pus-filled sore, to form pus, rot. to grow or cause to grow increasingly more irritating.
- provoke
- to excite, to anger, to stir up, bring about, bring forward.
- lean
- to slant or bend from an upright position, to cast one's weight from one side to support, to tend in opinion,taste, or desire, having little body fat, lacking richness or fallness.
- debt
- sin, tresspass, something owed to another, a thing or amount due
- sty
- a pigpen, messy
- somber
- so shaded as to be dark or gloomy, dull or dark colored.
- reveille
- a signal to get up in the morning, a bugle call at about sunrise signaling to 1st military formation of the day.
- remedy
- a medicine treated that cures or relieves, something that corrects an evil, rights a wrong, or makes up for a loss, to provide or reserve as a remedy, releive.
- Holstein
- any of a breed of large black and white cattle producing large quantities of milk that is low in fat compared to the milk of another breeds.
- ridge
- a raised or elevated part of an area, a range of hills or mountains, the line made where two sloping surgaces come together.