Convergences: Massacre

Front 1

rendezvous

p. 301

Back 1

definition: to gather or meet

Front 2

rage and outraged

p. 297 and 303

Back 2

definition: both words contain the core word "rage", which means great and often uncontrolled anger

Front 3

site

p. 301

Back 3

definition: a place where something is, was, or will be positioned

Front 4

reprisal

p. 297

Back 4

definition: revenge; returning one injury or mean act with another

Front 5

ghost town

p. 300

Back 5

definition: a town, particularly in the western United States, in which no one lives but the buildings still stand

Front 6

eroded

p. 302

Back 6

definition: to be washed or blown away like soil by water or wind

Front 7

devour

p. 297

Back 7

definition: to eat rapidly, hungrily, and greedily

Front 8

confronted

p. 303

Back 8

definition: brought someone face to face with something, especially in anger and disagreement

Front 9

volunteers

p. 300

Back 9

definition: people who offer to do something instead of being forced to do something

Front 10

reveille

p. 297

Back 10

definition: a morning wake-up call, usually in the military with a bugle

Front 11

hostile

p. 295

Back 11

definition: unfriendly, like an enemy

Front 12

scrupulously

p. 301

Back 12

definition: being very very careful, especially about details

Front 13

volunteers

p. 300

Back 13

definition: people who offer to do something instead of being forced to do something

Front 14

relics

p. 300

Back 14

definition: things left over from the past; also religious objects connected to a saint

Front 15

slaughter

p. 296

Back 15

definition: to kill or butcher in large numbers like animals in a stockyard for meat

Front 16

massacre

p.295

Back 16

definition: the purposeful and cruel killing of a large group of (usually) unarmed people