Tale Of Two Cities Vocabulary

Question 1

Define barrister

Answer 1

A lawyer who handles court cases

Question 2

Define chateau

Answer 2

A French aristocrat’s country home

Question 3

Define conciergerie

Answer 3

A prison in Paris

Question 4

Define doll

Answer 4

A disparaging term for women in the nineteenth century

Question 5

Define ancien regime

Answer 5

The pre-revolutionary monarchical, aristocratic rule of France

Question 6

Define flambeau

Answer 6

A torch

Question 7

Define fortnight

Answer 7

Two weeks; 14 days

Question 8

Define garret

Answer 8

An attic or room on the top floor of a house or apartment

Question 9

Define guillotine

Answer 9

A heavy blade held up by two posts which is dropped on the victim’s neck in order to behead the victim

Question 10

Define hackney coach

Answer 10

A coach for hire, an older equivalent of a taxi

Question 11

Define head drawer

Answer 11

Man in charge of hotel

Question 12

Define incarceration

Answer 12

Imprisonment

Question 13

Define jackal

Answer 13

An accomplice who assists in menial or slightly disreputable acts

Question 14

Define letter de cachet

Answer 14

A sealed letter, especially from a sovereign, often ordering arbitrary imprisonment

Question 15

Define mail-coach

Answer 15

Before the introduction of railways there were two types of coaches on English roads: the mail coach and the stage coach. The mail coach was subsidized by the post office, whereas stage coaches were privately owned

Question 16

Define miller

Answer 16

A man whose profession is to grind wheat. Millers are usually portrayed as all white because they are covered in flour.

Question 17

Define old Bailey

Answer 17

The old Bailey court, the central court where criminals were prosecuted

Question 18

Define a pike

Answer 18

A long spear

Question 19

Define a postilion

Answer 19

A man who rides the near horse of the leaders to guild the horses drawing a coach

Question 20

Define punch

Answer 20

A spiced fruit beverage with an alcoholic base

Question 21

Define quartering

Answer 21

An antiquated punishment for criminals involving dismembering them into four parts

Question 22

Define quid

Answer 22

Slang for a pound ( British currency)

Question 23

Define resurrection- man

Answer 23

A person who digs up dead bodies to sell parts of them to scientists. Also called “resurrectionists”

Question 24

Define saint antoine

Answer 24

A district of Paris very active in the revolution, especially in the storming of the Bastille.

Question 25

Define scrivener

Answer 25

Scrub or copier

Question 26

Define shoe

Answer 26

Type of brakes under a carrage

Question 27

Define snuff

Answer 27

Powdered Tobacco inhaled through the nose

Question 28

Define solicitor

Answer 28

A lawyer who handles wills and estates and most matters not involving a court

Question 29

Define spectre

Answer 29

A ghost or apparition

Question 30

Define temple bar

Answer 30

A London landmark located near Tellson’s bank

Question 31

Define Tower of London

Answer 31

The state prison in London

Question 32

Define tumbril

Answer 32

A crude two wheeled cart used to carry prisoners to be executed in the French Revolution

Question 33

Define turnkey

Answer 33

A jailer

Question 34

Define Versailles

Answer 34

A city southwest of Paris known for the opulent French royal palace built for king Louis XIV

Question 35

Define ward

Answer 35

Someone for whom someone else has responsibility, especially financially

Question 36

Define whitefriars

Answer 36

In dickens’s time, a disreputable district of London

Question 37

Define wood-sawyer

Answer 37

A man who chops wood