An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge" Vocabulary

Acclivity

Upward slope

Etiquette

Appropriate behavior and ceremony

Deference

Respect, courtesy regard

Corinth

A Mississippi town; the site of a 1862 Civil War battle

Dictum

Formal Statement of a fact or opinion

Summarily hanged

Right now! Without formality

Apprised

Informed and notified

Picket post

Troops sent ahead of a surprise attack

Tow

Course, broken fibers of hemp of flax before spinning

Preternaturally

Abnormally, extraordinary, beyond a natural state

Presaging

Predicting, warning

Martinet

Strict military disciplinarian

Diminuendo

Musical term meaning reduction in volume

Charge of Grape

Cluster of small iron balls shot from a
cannon

Roseate

Rose-colored

Aeolian Harps

Wind chimes

Ineffable Joy

So happy that one is speechless

Stockade

A military enclosure

Stonily

Motionless like a stone

Dignitary

A VIP, or very important person

The Liberal military code

Large, substantial

Death Knell

Loud church bell that rings when a member of the community dies

Ardently devoted to the Southern case

Whole-heartedly or 100%

An Imperious nature

Domineering, arrogant, with authority

Encompassed in a luminous cloud

(enclosed or within) (filled with light)

Cynical / Cynicism

Sarcastic pessimistic

Malice / Malicious

Meanness, cruelty

Concise

Brief, short

Futility

Useless, pointless

Satire

Mockery, ridicule

Protrude

To stick out; to project

Assent

To express agreement

Adorn

To make beautiful

Malign

Harmful; evil

Sentinel

Guard; sentry

Chafed

Scratched, irritated

Appalling

Awful, terrible, dismaying

Oscillation

Regular back-and-forth movement

Perilous

Dangerous

Gyration

Circular movement

Fatigued and famishing

(extremely tired) and (extremely hungry)