Frederick Douglass 1 Flashcards
(38 cards)
Gratification
Great satisfaction, reward or recompense
Cudgel
A short thick stick used as a weapon
Impertinent
Intrusive, uncivil, irrelevant
Intimation
Making known indirectly, a hint
Joists
Small parallel beams for supporting floors or ceiling
Lineal
Being in the direct line as a descent
Mulatto
Half black half white
Overseer
Supervisor. Manager
Anguish
Excruciating or acute distress
Betide
To happen, come to. Befall. Come to pass
Coopering
To make or repair. Furnish or fix
Ineffable
Incapable of being expressed or described in words
Obdurate
Unmoved by persuasion pity or tender feelings. Stubbornly resistant or moral influence
Pathetic
Causing or evoking pity. Sympathetic.
Privation
Lack or the usual comforts or necessaries of life
Providence
The foreseeing care an guidance of god
Ascertain
To find out definitely. Learn with certainty or assurance
Barouche
Four wheeled carriage with a high front seat for the outside driver and facing seats for two couples
Defile
Make foul dirty or unclean. Pollute
Equipage
Carriage drawn by horses. Outfit of a ship, army etc. collection of articles for personal ornament use
Execrated
To detest utterly. Boom image. Curse. Damn. Denounce.
Imbue
To drink. Absorb. Soak up. Take or receive into the mind as knowledge or ideas
Stratagem
Plan or scheme for deceiving and enemy.
Sunder
To separate. Part. Dived