1. Chapter Vocab

2. Anomaly
Different from what is usual or expected

3. Coffers
An old-fashioned term for money boxes

4. concoction
Something made by mixing things together

5. emigrate
To leave one’s home country or area to live in another

6. ensconced
To settle securely or snugly

7. Initiative
The ability to start and accomplish something on one’s own

8. precarious
Unsafe, dangerous, not secure

9. recidivism
A tendency to decline into a previous condition or mode of behavior

10. reminiscence
Telling of a past experience

11. rogue
To behave in an unexpected way

12. surmise
To form an opinion or conclusion without much evidence

13. wallow
To dedicate oneself entirely to something