There are lots of interesting words since I don't know so many words! bahaha...
William
the Conqueror – the victor at the Battle of
Hastings in 1066, thereby altering England’s history forever. Huck is
dramatically incorrect as he connects the Mayflower, the ship on which the
Pilgrims came to America in 1620, with someone from the 11th
century.
Obsequies
– funeral rites. A ceremony for
celebrating, sanctifying, or remembering the life a person who has died.
Mulatter
– a person with one black parent and one white parent, or any person with mixed
ancestry; Pap’s mispronunciation.
Phrenology
– the practice of telling people’s fortunes by feeling the bumps on their
heads.
Bulrushers
– the reeds that the mother of Moses
used to make a small “ark” in which to hide her baby after Pharaoh declared
that all newly born Jewish male babies should be killed
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