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vocabulary 1-22-10
Ali 1-22-10 5th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| abolitionist | people against slavery |
| apprentice | someone who works for another person in order to learn a trade |
| captives | prisoners |
| conflict | struggle, war |
| dread | grim fear |
| influential | having the power to affect evens or sway opinions |
| privateers | ships that are privately owned but are encouraged by the government to attack enemy ships during war |
| tacking | changing directions while sailing |
| decent | coming from ancestors |
| dexterity | skill in using one's hands |
| bondage | slavery |
| grapeshot | cluster of small iron balls used as a cannon charge |
| provisions | rations of materials |
| languished | suffered miserably |
| tentative | hesitant |
| traitor | people who betray their country |
| hold | the lower inside part of a ship |
| parliament | Great Britain's lawmaking assembly |
| tariff | a tax on imported goods |
| protest | to speak out against something |
| petition | a document that people sign that formally asks leaders to do or change something |
| repels | to do away with |
| boycott | an organized refusal to buy goods or services |