Vocabulary to Uncle Tom’s Cabin

1. pious  = holy, devout
2. candid (blunt, straight forward) flourish (showiness)
3. convulsive (intense contraction of muscles one can not control)
4. stupefied (astonished) and confounded (mixed up, confused)
5. flog = to whip
6. fiendish (devilish) exultation (extreme happiness, joyfulness)
7. unapt (dull, backward) personification
8. contemptuous (despising, hating) kick
9. gnashed (grind the teeth) on him with his teeth
10.   disenthralled (free from bondage, no longer a slave)
11.   Legree felled (to knock over) Tom.
12.   peart as a cricket  = lively as a cricket
13.   submissive = one who gives in
14.   his power over his bond thrall  (slave, servant) was somehow gone
15.   he blasphemed (cursed) God.
16.   taunts = words used to hurt or pick on some one
17.   demonic  = having devilish characteristics
18.   poor wretches  = poor people who are down and out, lowest in society.
19.   opportunities were scanty (few)
20.   imperceptibly (unnoticeable)
21.   with unrelenting (unending) cruelty
22.   in uttering a word of reviling (intense hatred) or cursing
23.   brutal execrations = very strong and mean curses
24.   eager docility  = eager softness, peacefulness
25.   their wonted (habitual) fixed despair
26.   burned on him like the fires of perdition (hell; total loss) 
27.   in a paroxysm (outburst, fit, attack) of determined rage
28.   don't repent (say you are sorry, ask for forgiveness)
29.   one irresolute (uncertain how to act), relenting (giving in) thrill
30.   with seven-fold vehemence (intensity, force)
31.   it so harrows (plunders, destroys) the soul
32.   they provided a rude (basic, not elegant) bed
33.   Legree sauntered (strolled) up to the door of the shed.
34.   with a dogged (determined) air of affected (put on, over-acting) carelessness.
35.   man was simply loathsome (disgusting)  to George
36.   prominent (leading, noticeable) Congregational minister
37.   anguish = severe pain
38.   melodramatic (over-acted, sensational) deathbed scenes
39.   slave narratives = stories
40.   condescending (put-down, act in a superior fashion) racist descriptions
41.   pietism (devotedness, dedication to God) of Uncle Tom.
42.   perpetuated (encouraged the spreading) some of the stereotypes
43.  a vital (very important) antislavery tool