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ESL 2 A Lincoln
new words from our reading
Term | Definition |
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penny | a U.S. coin |
died | passed away |
borrow | to take, use and return (give back) |
representative | a job in the U.S. government |
Emancipation Proclamation | the title of the law that gave the slaves their freedom |
separate | to divide into two or more parts rather than together |
union | a group of people, states, or nations that work together |
civil war | a war inside a country rather than between two countries or different groups of countries |
scan | search (look for) specific types of information rather than read every word carefully |
caption | words or sentences under or near a photo in an article |
title | the name of a book, article, law, song, movie |
headings | a word or group of word that is placed at the beginning of a paragraph or paragraphs in a text to show the topic of that part of the text |
slaves | people with no freedom |
fair | behaving toward all people in the same way- no one is better than another |