Wiki-Cabulary

Task: All vocabulary words and appropriate definitions for the passage Olaudah Equiano The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African (London, 1789; vol. I)

Loathsome (adj.): arousing intense dislike and disgust
Pestilential (adj): likely to cause disease
Copious (adj): plentiful; abundant
Improvident (adj): shortsighted; failing to provide for the future
Avarice (n): greed for riches
Apprehensions (n): feeling of anxiety or fear that something bad or unpleasant will happen; taking of a criminal into custody, the power or ability to grasp the importance, significance or meaning of something
Procured (v): to obtain something, especially by effort, to provide somebody for prostitution
Dejected (adj): feeling or showing sadness and lack of hope, especially because of disappointment
Accursed (adj): enduring the effects of a curse; horrible or hateful
Quadrant (n): a 90 degree arc representing one fourth of the circumference of a circle. The area bounded by a quadrant and the two perpendicular lines that connect it to the center of the circle.
Kindred (adj): close to somebody or something else because of similar qualities or interests. Related to somebody by blood. (n) closeness to somebody not related to you by blood based, e.g. on similarity of character or interest. Relationship by blood, or less strictly by marriage