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Charriez MBSID 1
Charriez MBSID ONE
Question | Answer |
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virtue | general moral excellence |
vile | repulsive, disgusting |
constitutes | consists of, made of |
vicious | evil, nasty |
taproom | bar, tavern |
Lobsterbacks | Nasty way to describe British soldiers |
steeple | a tall tower on a church |
sloth | laziness, no ambition |
treason | trying to overthrow your own government, a crime |
massacred | savage killing of many victims |
inscription | something written on stone or in a book |
Loyalists | People loyal to England |
swill | to drink (something) greedily or to excess: to guzzle |
rebellious | actiong against a government |
gaudy | chaeply showy in a tasteless way; flashy |
prevail | to succeed, to become dominant; win |
subversion | resisting control or authority |
Tories | People loyal to England |
ammunition | bullets; pobjects loaded in a weapon |
agitators | One who works against something; an example would be those who participated in the Boston Tea Party |
rushing | weaving a seat for a chair |
skirmishes | small battles |
ciphering | math |
surveyor | surveyor, someone who plots out parcels of land |
speculating | buying and selling land to make money |
thrash | beat or punish physically |
cholera | illness due to bad water |
consumption | a disease of the lungs |
shad | fish |