Johnny Tremain Chapter 1 vocab list

Apprentices

A person who is learning a trade from a skilled employer, having agreed to work for a fixed period at low wages.

Flaccid

soft and limp; not firm; flabby:

Formidable

causing fear, apprehension, or dread:

Wry

bitterly or disdainfully ironic or amusing:

Parasitic

an organism that lives on or in an organism of another species, known as the host, from the body of which it obtains nutriment.

Ethereal

Light, airy, tenuous

Swinish

like or befitting swine; hoggish.

Autocratic

an absolute ruler, especially a monarch who holds and exercises the powers of government as by inherent right, not subject to restrictions.

Apoplectic

of or relating to apoplexy or stroke.

Infernally

in an extremely bad, unpleasant, or annoying way

Brackish

somewhat salty or briny, as the water in an estuary or salt marsh, which is not as salty as the sea but saltier than a river: