1. Inherit the Wind Act I Vocabulary Review

2. Vocabulary Definitions  Select the vocabulary word that corresponds to each of the following definitions.

3.  the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country

4.  Answer: Hinterland

5.  characterized by firmness, steadfastness, or loyalty

6.  Answer: Staunch

7.  to lie in or be exposed to a pleasant warmth; to enjoy a pleasant situation

8.  Answer: bask

9.  to smile, laugh, or contort the face in a manner that shows scorn or contempt. a look or expression of derision, scorn, or contempt expression

10.  Answer: sneer

11.  a railroad or bus station; a storehouse or warehouse, as a building where freight is deposited

12.  Answer: Depot

13.  great eloquence in speech

14.  Answer: Oratorical

15.  deeply agitated

16.  Answer: Distraught

17.  a person who does not accept a particular faith, especially Christianity

18.  Answer: Infidel

19.  having a kindly disposition disposition

20.  Answer: Benign

21.  to give up (an alleged fugitive or criminal) to another state or nation at its request.

22.  Answer: extradite

23.  a gloomy or threatening look

24.  Answer: Scowl

25.  disdainfully proud; snobbish; scornfully arrogant; supercilious

26.  Answer: haughtily

27.  an officer, similar to a sheriff or a sheriff's deputy, employed to execute writs and processes, make arrests, keep order in the court

28.  Answer: Bailiff

29.  rank, unpleasant, and stale

30.  Answer: Rancid

31.  making claims or pretensions to superior importance or rights; overbearingly assuming; insolently proud

32.  Answer: Arrogant

33.  a paperboard sign or notice, as one posted in a public place or carried by a demonstrator or picketer. To publicize, announce, or advertise by means of placards.

34.  Answer: Placard

35.  ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of an unsophisticated person from a rural area.

36.  Answer: Caricatured rubes

37.  extremely thin and bony; haggard and drawn, as from great hunger, weariness, or torture; emaciated.

38.  Answer: Gaunt

39.  a small piece of luggage that can be carried by hand, used to hold clothing, toilet articles, etc.; suitcase; traveling bag.

40.  Answer: Valise

41.  anyone who does not conform to an established attitude, doctrine, or principle

42.  Answer: Heretic

43.  to step, walk, or trample so as to press, crush, or injure something. to set down the foot or feet in walking; step; walk set

44.  Answer: Tread

45.  the right to vote, especially in a political election

46.  Answer: Suffrage

47.  the male head of a family or tribal line line

48.  Answer: patriarch

49.  portending evil or harm; foreboding; threatening

50.  Answer: Ominous

51.  having a large and protruding belly; potbellied

52.  Answer: Paunchy

53.  pure; unsullied; untouched

54.  Answer: virginal

55.  a leisurely walk or ramble; to stroll

56.  Answer: Saunter

57.  any of various lines or tackles for hoisting a spar, sail, flag, etc., into position for use.

58.  Answer: Halyards

59.  to chuckle gleefully/a gleeful chuckle

60.  Answer: Chortles

61.  equipment, apparatus, or furnishing used in or necessary for a particular activity

62.  Answer: Paraphernalia