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56 vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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lore | knowledge gained by tradition or anecdote |
Puritan | a person excessively concerned about property and decorum |
knave | a deceitful and unreliable scoundrel;rascal;bad person |
framed | concieved or designed |
enlisted | joined |
venture | proceed to somewhere despite possible risk of dangers |
ransacked | wrongfully emptied or stripped of anything of value |
providence | the guardianship and control |
colonists | people that enter a new colony or move to a new country |
heapes | a large number or amount |
Golgotha | a hill near Jerusalem where Jesus was crucified |
exhum | dig up for reburial or human investigation |
corpses | the dead body of a human being |
captors | a person who captures or holds people or animals |
scoffed | laughed at with contempt and derision |
bequeathed | left or gave by will after ones death |
epidemic | a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease |
mused | reflected deeply on a subject |
mariners | a man who serves as a sailor |
plied | worked steadily at;conducted |
ramshackle | in deplorable condition |
ethnographer | an anthropologist that does ethnography |
subsequent | following in time or order |
anthropology | the social science that studies the orgins and social relationships of human beings |
Jesuit | a member of the Jesuit order |
demography | the branch of sociology that studies the the characteristics of human populations |