Main Characters
Vocabulary
- Appalling - DisgustingCholera - An infectious intestinal disease with symptoms of pain and dehydration
- Cholera - An infectious intestinal disease with symptoms causing pain and dehydration
- Cinders - Ashes
- Desolation - Loneliness; misery; waste
- Discomfited - Embarrassed
- Disdaining - Showing scorn; treating another as if he/she is of lesser value than oneself
- Governess - A women who works training and teaching children
- Hearth - The brick floor of a fireplace
- Hunchback - Person with a deformed back
- Imploringly - in a begging manner
- Impudent - Bold, disrespectful; saucy
- Indifference - Lack of interest; lack of concern; apathy
- Moor - Rolling wasteland, sometimes marshy, usually covered
- Salaams - Greetings; exchanges of peaceful greetings
- Sallow - Yellow
- Servile - Submissive; in the manner of a servant
- Subservient - Helpful, in the manner of servant
- Tapestry - Decoratively or artistically woven cloth wall hanging
- Tyrannical - Cruel; oppressive
- Vexed - Angered