A Year Down Yonder - Vocabulary 2 Tools A B vittles food waging to engage in a fight piteous deserving pity doled to give something as charity surged to move suddenly coroner A public official who investigates by inquest any death not due to natural causes coronary heart attack berth bed adder a small venomous snake haste The act of moving hurriedly and in a careless manner foliage leaves transfixed Having your attention fixated as though by a spell reeled jerked heady very pleasing shucking removing wan pale and unhealthy shied moved quickly splayed spread out sullen showing bad temper or hostility by a refusal to talk, behave sociably, or cooperate cheerfully vengeance revenge