A Year Down Yonder-Vocabulary

A small outdoor building used as a toilet.

• fraying

• privy

• conniption

• rickety

An angry or hysterical fit

• conniption

• penitentiary

• rickety

• privileges

Something old and unstable

• conniption

• privy

• fraying

• rickety

Rights or benefits given to some people.

• penitentiary

• fraying

• privileges

• conniption

Something coming apart or splitting

• privy

• rickey

• conniption

• fraying

Moved quickly and suddenly in a certain direction

• rapscallion

• surged

• foliage

• piteous

Causing feelings of pity or sympathy

• piteous

• smoldering

• vengeance

• foliage

Leaves of a plant or tree

• piteous

• surged

• smoldering

• foliage

A mischievous person

• surged

• vengeance

• piteous

• rapscallion

The act of getting back as someone.

• piteous

• rapscallion

• smoldering

• vengeance