Chasing Lincoln’s Killer Vocabulary. Prologue Inauguration (n) 1 – Fervently (adj) 2 – Scourge (v) 2 – Malice (n) 2 – Bind (v) 2 – Adversary (n) 7 – Illuminate.

Chasing Lincoln’s Killer

Vocabulary

Prologue• Inauguration (n) 1 –• Fervently (adj) 2 –

• Scourge (v) 2 –• Malice (n) 2 –• Bind (v) 2 –• Adversary (n) 7 –• Illuminate (v) 7 –

A ceremonial induction into office

Exhibiting or marked by great intensity of feeling

Whip; punishment

Desire to cause pain

To wrap together

Opponent

To light

Chapter 1• Confederacy (n) 9–• Tyrant (n) 9–

• Vain (adj) 10–• Proprietors (n) 11 – • Partition (n) 11–• Precede (v) 13 –• Presided (v) 22 –

A group of 11 South States during the Civil War.

A ruler who exercises absolute power through strength

Having or showing undue or excessive pride in one's appearance. Conceited

Owner

Divider

To be earlier than

To guide, direct, or control

Chapter 1 Continued• Harebrained (adj) 22 –

• Conspirator (n) 23 - • Ambush (v) 24 - • Implicated (v) 27 - • Reluctance (n) 28 - • Quirks (n) 29 – • Accompaniment (n) 31 – • Solemn (adj) 31 -

Foolish, flighty

Someone who acts with together

To take by surprise

Involved

Hesitation

A peculiar trait

An addition to make complete

Sad, gloomy. Marked by grief.

Chapter 2• Dialogue (n) 33 –

• Vestibule (n) 35 –

• Avenged (v) 43 –

• Assassin (n) 45 –

Discussion between two or more people.

A passage, hall, or room between the outer door and the interior

to take satisfaction for (a wrong) by punishing the wrongdoer

A person who commits murder.

Chapter 3• Henchmen (n) 47 –

• Brute (adj) 48 –

• Deception (n) 48 –

• Agonized (v) 55 –

A trusted follower

Purely physical

Trickery

Painful

Chapter 4• Vengeance (n) 66 –

• Menacing (adj) 66 –

• Coagulated (adj) 68 –

• Mortal (adj) 69 –

• Accomplice (n) 70 –

Punishment inflicted in retaliation for an injury or offense

Display of intention to harm

to gather together or form into a mass or group

Causing death.

Partner.

Chapter 4 Continued• Endure (v) 73 –

• Secessionist (n) 75 –

• Boardinghouse (n) 77 –

• Bewildered (adj) 76 –

to undergo (as a hardship); suffer

one who secedes (leaves) the Union.

a lodging house at which meals are provided.

confused

Chapter 5• Regiment (n) 78 –

• Cavalry (n) 78 –

• Inferno (n) 79 –

• Epidemic (n) 80 –

• Mayhem (n) 81 –

A military unit consisting usually of a number of battalions

An army component mounted on horseback

A great fire

An outbreak of sudden rapid growth or spreading

Craziness. Chaos.

Chapter 5 Cont.• Ascending (v) 83 –

• Impulsive (adj) 84 –

• Grotesque (adj) 86 –

• Catastrophic (adj) 87 –

Rising

Act without thought

Gross, ugly

Disastrous, tragic

Chapter 6• Inevitable (adj) 101 –

• Deterioration (n) 101 –

• Circumstance (n) 107 –

• Eluded (v) 107 -

Expected

Worsening condition

Situation

To avoid

Chapter 6 Cont.• Sheath (n) 108 –

• Collateral (n) 109 –

• Martyred (adj) 109 –

• Distress (n) 112 -

A case or covering for a knife

Property given in exchange for other goods or items gained.

Put to death for adhering to a belief, faith, or profession

A state of danger or desperate need

Chapter 7• Salvation (n) 116 –

• Bonds (n) 119 –

• Thicket (n) 120 – • Fugitives (n) 120 – • Confided (v) 121 – • Carbine (n) 127 –

Deliverance from the power and effects of sin.

An investment that earns money

A dense growth of shrubbery

Criminals avoiding capture

To show trust in one

A short-barreled lightweight firearm originally used by cavalry

Chapter 8Maniac (n) 133 –

Interrogator (n) 133 –

Tribunal (n) 136 –

Madman; lunatic

A person who questions or seeks answers for information

A court or place of justice

Chapter 9Jeopardize (v) 137 –

Crepe (n) 140 –

Profoundly (adj) 141 –

Spectacle (n) 141 –

To expose to danger or risk

A light crinkled fabric woven of any of various fibers

Characterized by intensity of feeling or quality

An eye-catching or dramatic public display

Chapter 10• Sanctuary (n) 144 –

• Emitted (v) 144 –

• Bow (n) 146 –

• Vulnerable (adj) 149 –

• Tarried (v) 150 –

Safe place

To give off or release

Front area of a boat.

Weak, in a state of danger

Delay or put off

Chapter 11Disembarked (v) 151 –

Pungent (adj) 152 –

Chiding (v) 153 –

Comrades (n) 155 –

Deceitful (adj) 156 –

Come ashore.

Strong sense of fowl smelling

To voice disapproval or speak out against.

A fellow soldier

Dishonest; untrustworthy

Chapter 11 Cont.Egotistical (adj) 156 –

Relished (v) 158 –

Dismay (n) 160 –

Agitation (n) 162 –

Treachery (n) 163 –

Self-centered

Take pleasure in something

Shock; disbelief.

A state of irritation. Annoyance. Frustration

Betrayal; Disloyal

Chapter 11 Cont.Proprietor (n) 164 –

Ultimatum (n) 167 –

Scaffold (v) 171 –

Lapsed (v) 176 –

Owner, manager

A challenge.

A platform on which a criminal is executed

To go from one to state to another

Chapter 12Inquest (n) 180 –

Penitentiary (n) 181 –

Investigation

Prison or jail

Chapter 13Notoriety (n) 186 –

Well known.

Chapter 14Climactic (adj) 187 –

Conviction (n) 187 –

Relating to the most important part of an event.

The act of finding a person guilty of a crime.