Gone With the Wind Vocab, Lesson 2

Lesson 2

These are words from Gone With the Wind. Some are brand-new to me; others I’ve looked up to get a clearer definition, to confirm the meaning or look for expanded definitions. Plus, it’s just fun, for me.

Lesson 1 started here.

amity p 52—With all the rest of the County, Gerald was on terms of amity and some intimacy.
—peaceful harmony; mutual understanding and peaceful relationship

pony p 52—signaled for tall glasses in which a pony of Bourbon had been poured over a teaspoon of sugar and a spring of crushed mint
—something smaller than standard; a small liqueur glass typically holding one ounce

truculent p 52—a kind heart, a ready and sympathetic ear and an open pocketbook lurked just behind his bawling voice and his truculent manner
—eager or quick to argue or fight; aggressively defiant

florid p 35—When Gerald . . . so thickset of body and florid of face that he looked like a hunting squire out of a sporting print
—tinged with red, ruddy; archaic: healthy

depredations p 60—About the geese on the lawns of Tara: Against their depredations, a small black sentinel was stationed on the front porch. Armed with a ragged towel, the little negro boy sitting on the steps was part of the picture of Tara—and an unhappy one
—preying upon, plundering, ravage

chunk p 60—one, for he was forbidden to chunk the fowls and could only flap the towel at them and shoo them.
—to make a dull plunging or explosive sound

splitter p 74—Pork took a long splitter from the mantelpiece, lit it from the lamp flame and went into the hall.
—a flexible strip of wood, used in basket making; a slender piece of wood (or a roll or twist of paper) for lighting a fire