Frederick Douglass 1 Flashcards

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Gratification

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Great satisfaction, reward or recompense

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Cudgel

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A short thick stick used as a weapon

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Impertinent

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Intrusive, uncivil, irrelevant

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Intimation

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Making known indirectly, a hint

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Joists

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Small parallel beams for supporting floors or ceiling

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Lineal

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Being in the direct line as a descent

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Mulatto

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Half black half white

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Overseer

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Supervisor. Manager

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Anguish

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Excruciating or acute distress

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Betide

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To happen, come to. Befall. Come to pass

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Coopering

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To make or repair. Furnish or fix

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Ineffable

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Incapable of being expressed or described in words

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Obdurate

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Unmoved by persuasion pity or tender feelings. Stubbornly resistant or moral influence

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Pathetic

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Causing or evoking pity. Sympathetic.

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Privation

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Lack or the usual comforts or necessaries of life

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Providence

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The foreseeing care an guidance of god

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Ascertain

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To find out definitely. Learn with certainty or assurance

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Barouche

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Four wheeled carriage with a high front seat for the outside driver and facing seats for two couples

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Defile

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Make foul dirty or unclean. Pollute

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Equipage

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Carriage drawn by horses. Outfit of a ship, army etc. collection of articles for personal ornament use

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Execrated

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To detest utterly. Boom image. Curse. Damn. Denounce.

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Imbue

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To drink. Absorb. Soak up. Take or receive into the mind as knowledge or ideas

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Stratagem

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Plan or scheme for deceiving and enemy.

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Sunder

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To separate. Part. Dived

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Debasing
To reduce in quality or value
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Homage
Respect or reverence paid.
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Immutable
Unchangable. Changeless
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Scurf
The scales or small shreds of epidermis that is continually exfoliated from the skin
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Manifestation
Outward or perceptible indication. Public demonstration
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Egotistical
Given to talking about oneself. Cain
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Interposition
The act of placing something in between. Doctrine that an individual state of the us may oppose any federal action
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Abhorrence
Feeling of extreme or utter loathing. Abomination. Loathsome
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Vestige
Mark trace or visible evidence if something that is no longer present or in existence. Footprint or track
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Atrocious
Extremely wicked cruel or brutal.
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Lacerated
Mangled. Jagged. Torn. Pained. Wounded
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Odium
Intense hatred or dislike. Especially something despicable
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Festering
To form pus. Cause uncertain. Putrefy or rot
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Offal
The parts of butchered animal that are considered in edible by human beings. Rubbish. Garbage.