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Boy Who Dared Vocab2
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| intrigued | Curious by an unusual event |
| Humiliation | Lose pride or self confidence. |
| Resolve | To solve a conflict |
| Evoke | Elicit (a response) |
| Stragglers | to linger behind or wander from a main line or part |
| Zealous | Enthusiastic or passionate. |
| Denounced | Publicly declare to be wrong or evil. |
| Traispses | Walks slowly due to fear |
| Anarchist | Person who doesn't like the government |
| Undermine | To attack or take down something |
| flat | A small apartment |
| clemency | the quality of being clement; disposition to show forbearance, compassion, or forgiveness in judging or punishing; leniency; mercy. |
| inflation | Prices rise but the overall value of money decreases. |
| communism | A theory of people holding property in common |
| hysteria | an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc |
| martial | inclined or disposed to war; warlike |
| ferocity | a ferocious quality or state |
| chancellor | the chief minister of state in certain parliamentary governments, as in Germany; prime minister; premier. |
| Culprit | Someone blamed for a crime |
| boycott | To stop using services |
| exhilarated | to enliven; invigorate; stimulate |
| turmoil | a state of great commotion, confusion, or disturbance; |
| truncheon | the club carried by a police officer |
| traispes | to walk or go aimlessly or idly or without finding or reaching one's goal: |
| appalled | to fill or overcome with horror, consternation, or fear |
| jaunty | easy and sprightly in manner or bearing: |
| idealism | the cherishing or pursuit of high or noble principles, purposes, goals, |
| doctrine | a particular principle, position, or policy taught or advocated, as of a religion or government |
| agitator | to speak or write in favor of; support or urge by argument; recommend publicly |
| dissent | to differ in sentiment or opinion, especially from the majority; withhold assent; disagree |
| squalid | foul and repulsive, as from lack of care or cleanliness; neglected and filthy. |
| frugal | economical in use or expenditure; prudently saving or sparing; not wasteful: |
| deception | the act of deceiving; the state of being deceived |
| retaliation | the act of retaliating; return of like for like; reprisal. |
| escalate | to increase in intensity, magnitude, |
| enunciating | to utter or pronounce (words, sentences, etc.), especially in an articulate or a particular manner |
| truncheons | the club carried by a police officer; |
| treasons | the offense of acting to overthrow one's government or to harm or kill its sovereign. |
| alledgly | according to what is or has been alleged. |
| incriminating | to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault: |
| methodical | performed, disposed, or acting in a systematic way; systematic; orderly: |
| implicate | to show to be also involved, usually in an incriminating manner: |
| remonstrations | to say or plead in protest, objection, or disapproval. |
| emphatic | uttered, or to be uttered, with emphasis; strongly expressive. |
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