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