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Charriez MBSID 1
Charriez MBSID ONE
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 |