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27 Cards in this Set
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What does compensate mean?
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to be equal in value; to make equal
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What is the word that means the special language of a particular activity or group?
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What is jargon?
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What does persevere or persevering mean?
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to keep working or going at something in spit of difficulties
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What word means to cause strong dislike or hatred? Someone that is worthy of hatred.
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What is odiousness?
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What does ascertain mean?
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To learn with certainty; to find out
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What does conjecture mean?
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To make a guess or an assumption.
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What is the word that means a clever trick or scheme? The colonel has to resort to all types of ________ to keep his slaves out of the gardens.
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Stratagems
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When there is not enough food or supplies for eveyone, what word comes to mind? The word means to be deprived or to not have enough.
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What is privation?
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A loosely scaly crust, coating a surface, especially of a pant.
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What is scurf?
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When someone works very hard? The _______ worker stayed after everyone left to make sure that cotton was picked from the farm.
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What is diligent?
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What word means to recieve into the mind and retain? Frederick Douglas ________ knowledge from learning how to read.
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What is imbibe?
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What does betwixt mean?
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between something
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What word means to cause or lose flesh so as to become very thin?
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What is emaciated?
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The ________ of the slaves meant that they were freed from slavery.
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What is emancipation?
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What is the word that means absolutely necessary or essential?
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What is indispensable?
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_________ means to be very lively.
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What is sprightly?
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What does the word mean to injure by tearing?
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final jeopardy
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What does injurious mean?
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to cause injury; to hurt another
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A peson that has a high opinion of his or her importance is ___________.
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What is egotistical?
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What does inanimate mean?
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without life; not moving
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What does obdurate mean?
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What is stubborn?
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Fredreick Douglass was considered to be a great speaker, which is another way of saying he was a great ________.
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What is an orator?
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What is a horse-drawn carriage with or without attendants?
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What is an equipage?
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What does the word errand mean?
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To make a short trip to do or get something for someone else.
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What word best describes the act of comforting a person in times of grief, distress or suffering?
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What is consolation?
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What does cudgel mean?
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to beat with a short club or it is a short club.
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A person who directs or manages is a __________.
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What is a superintendent?
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