Taffeta
A silk-like fabric
Persimmon
A sweet fruit that looks like a large tomato
Calamitous
Involving catastrophe or disaster
Troubadour
A poet who puts their words to music
Boll
The rounded part of a cotton plant that contains the seed
Abacus
An apparatus used for counting and calculating
Mite
A very small amount
Rakish
Having or showing a dashing, disreputable appearance
Chinaberry
A type of deciduous tree from the mahogany family
Weevil
A small beetle known for killing crops
Impudent
To not show proper respect for others
Apparition
A ghost or ghostly image
Roustabout
An unskilled worker
Indignity
Treatment or situations that make someone feel shame or a loss of dignity
Hominy
A type of hard corn used to make grits
Sobriquet
A person’s nickname
Chifforobe
A piece of furniture used to keep clothes, with separate spaces for drawers and hanging space
Gaffe
An unintentional mistake or blunder
Admonish
To warn or reprimand someone
Bombastic
High-sounding but lacking meaning or substance
Quadroon
A person who is one-quarter black
Siditty
Snobbish or pretentious (also spelled as "seddity")
Appellation
A name or title
Foreman
A boss man or worker that is in charge of others
Quandary
A state of confusion about a situation or circumstance
Uppity
Self-important or arrogant
Morose
Sullen and ill-tempered
Inequity
Injustice or lack of fairness
Benign
Gentle and kind
Moors
A stretch of open, uncultivated land
Impish
Naughty or mischievous
Mumbledypeg
An old children’s game played with pocketknives
Mote
A tiny piece of matter
Commensurate
Proportional
Comeuppance
A punishment that someone has earned or deserves; just desserts
Bowers and scrappers
Hard workers or servants
Ecumenical
A word denoting unity among different Christian churches
Teenincy
A Southern slang word meaning "tiny"
Onerous
Requiring an oppressive and difficult amount of work and effort
Enweaved
To work through
Cyclopean
Relating to the eye of Cyclops, the one-eyed monster
Farcical
Absurd, ridiculous, or fake
Calaboose
A prison
Varlet
A dishonest, unprincipled man
Peckerwood
A slang word for "poor white person"
Stratagem
A plan or scheme
Djinn
A genie
Didoes
Impish tricks or deeds
Pinochle
A card game
Nisei
A second-generation Japanese American
Rarefied
Distant from the lives and experiences of pedestrian people
Florid
A red, flushed complexion
Arabesque
An ornament design with origins in Arabic and Moorish culture
Recrimination
An accusation given in response to an accusation from someone else
Bilked
To cheat or bamboozle someone out of money
Lucullan
Extremely luxurious
Liveried
To be uniformed
Mercados
A Spanish word meaning "market"
Cantina
In Spanish-speaking countries, a bar
Bedizened
Decorated gaudily
Blasé
Uninterested or indifferent towards something because one has seen it often before
Oedipial skein
A confusing knot of mother-son relations
Pavane
A courtly dance from the 16th or 17th century
Obeisance
Deferential respect
Claque
A group of people hired to support from the sidelines
Supercilious
Acting or appearing as if one is better than others
Tripartite
To have three parts
Malaise
A general feeling of discomfort or uneasiness whose source is unclear
Brouhaha
A noisy and dramatic response to something
