Chapter 9-10 Alas Babylon vocab

**antebellum**

before the war

**besieged**

to close in on, take over

**solicitous**

showing concern

**ebbing**

weakening, lessening

**indignation**

anger resulting from injustice

**jargon**

special vocabulary

farce

something ridiculous

**proconsuls**

government official in a colony

**tactical**

detailed arrangement in the military

**palavers**

discussion, chatter

**unparried**

unable to deflect or ward off

**honing**

sharpening

**travail**

pain, agony

**serpentine**

twisting

**inoculate**

vaccinate

**volatile**

unpredictable, unstable

**vigilante**

person who keeps order and punishes for crime

**requisition**

formal demand or request

**gumption**

initiative or aggressiveness, boldness

**appalled**

shocked, filled with horror or disgust