Across
- 2. the city where the story takes place
- 4. standing around without purpose (vocab word)
- 6. an expression of sympathy (vocab word)
- 8. a free Black woman who works as a cook at the coffeehouse
- 11. what actually causes yellow fever
- 12. the servant who works at the coffeehouse; the first character to be affected by the disease
- 13. to get rid of something (vocab word)
- 17. nickname for the protagonist
- 18. Mattie often dresses in a _____ fashion because she works (vocab word)
- 20. despicable, gross, annoying, etc. (vocab word)
- 21. Mrs. Cook criticizes Mattie for not acting _____ (vocab word)
Down
- 1. tending to be troublesome or argumentative (vocab word)
- 3. a loud, continuous noise (vocab word)
- 5. harmful to living things (vocab word)
- 6. to persuade someone with flattery (vocab word)
- 7. the type of business the Cook family owns
- 9. they ring when someone dies
- 10. the man who lives with Mattie and her mother
- 14. bad air formerly believed to cause disease (vocab word)
- 15. name of the disease affecting the characters
- 16. the rick young lady who falls from the fever at the tea party
- 19. exposure to danger or risk (vocab word)
