Vocabulary

Interesting Vocabulary in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

• Fetch: to be sold a certain price
• Ornery: having a difficult and contrary disposition
• Tote: carry with difficulty
• Wade: to walk through shallow water
• Contrite: feeling sorrow for sins and wrongdoings
• Victuals: food usable by people; supplies of food  
• Nabob: A person of great wealth or importance
• Quicksilver: mercury
• Skiff: a flat-bottomed rowboat
• Rapscallions: a mean, unprincipled, or dishonest person; rascal
• Shaol: to become shallow; a sandbank or sandbar
• Addled: to become rotten or confused
• Don Quixote: a famous novel by Spanish author Cervantes that satirizes knighthood and human folly
• Cowhide: a beating or whipping with a belt
• Fantods: shaves/nervous fidgets
• Lynched: to be hung by a mob
• Hocus: to fool or trick
• Powwow: a loud disturbance
• Nebuchadnezzar: A king of babylonia that God made
• Old Harry: the devil
• Wigwam: a type of Native American Indian home
• Cavern: an underground cave
• Parcel: a group or bundle
• Careen: pitching dangerously to one side
• Seedy: shabby and untidy
• Loll: to be lazy or idle
• Gaudy: tastelessly showy
• Palaver: to speak about unimportant matters rapidly and incessantly
• Histrionic: characteristic of acting or a stage performance
• Pert: characterized by a lightly exuberant quality
• Cipher: a secret method of writing
• Main: injure or wound seriously and leave permanent disfiguration
• Mite: small arachnid infesting animals, plants or stored foods
• Pious: having, showing, or expressing reverence for a deity
• Mar: render imperfect
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