#10 Vocabulary

Question 1

Metaphor

Answer 1

A figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable.

Question 2

Debt

Answer 2

A state of being under obligation to pay or repay someone or something in return for something received.

Question 3

Acts

Answer 3

Laws created or passed by a government. For example, the Stamp Act was a law that was passed by the British Parliament.

Question 4

Taxation without representation

Answer 4

Forcing people to pay taxes when they have no say in making the law that created tax.

Question 5

Protest

Answer 5

Express an objection to what someone has said or done.

Question 6

Parliament

Answer 6

A council of state in early medieval England. : an assemblage of the nobility, clergy, and commons called together by the British sovereign as the supreme legislative body in the United Kingdom.

Question 7

Repealed

Answer 7

Revoke or annul (a law or congressional act).