Humanities TEST les get 40

Tenement

(N) a building full of cramped apartments that are over full

Bonanza

(N) A fortune or jackpot

Ragamuffins

(N) a child that is dirty and wears worn down clothes

Cambric

(N) a lightweight, closely woven white linen or cotton fabric

Conjecturing

(V) to form an opinion without all of the information

Brazenly

(Adv.) in a bold and shameless way

Interminable

(Adj.) never ending

Consumption

(N) suffering from tuberculosis

Genuflected

(V) to lower one's body briefly as a sign of worship

Consternation

(V) feelings of anxiety, typically at something unexpected

Caul

(N) a membrane that covers a baby's head during birth

Furtively

(Adv.) in a way that tries to avoid attention

Doggedly

(Adv.) in a way that shows persistence

Paradoxically

(Adv.) in a absurd and self-contradictory way

Disdain

(V) to consider to be unworthy of ones' consideration

flect

To bend or curve

Para

Beside or alongside