Unforgiven Glossary

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Academy Award for Best Picture

The highly prestigious award given by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to the best film of the year

Assassin

Someone who has killed an important person suprisingly

Boastful

Showing imense pride and self-satisfication in oneself

Cowardly

Somone who has little or no courage

Dadgum

Word from the United States south. Slang used to express annoyance; goddamn.

Disposition

A person's inherent qualities and characteristics

Establishment

Slang for a place of business

Hospitality

Being kind/generous to strangers or any other kinds of people

Intemperate

Having no self control; not showing moderation

Outlaw

Someone who has broken the law, oftentimes someone who remains uncaptured

Plague

A contagious bacterial disease

Reckon

Slang for come to the conlcusion

Saloon

A public room used for a specific purpose (i.e. to sell drink)

Sumbitch

Slang and shortened version of son of bitch

Superior

Better (than something)

Whore

(Derogatory) A prostitute

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