Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass Flashcards

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Cudgel

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A club with a round head

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Gratification

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Getting pleasure or satisfaction

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Impertinent

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Not showing proper respect or manners

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Intimation

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A hint or indirect suggestion

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Joists

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The parallel beams that hold up the planks of a floor

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Lineal

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In the parallel line of descent

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Mulatto

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A person of mixed black and white ancestory

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Overseer

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One who watches over and directs the work of others

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Anguish

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Great suffering from worry, grief or pain

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Betides

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To happen, befall

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Coopering

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Making or repairing barrels or casks

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Ineffable

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Too overwhelming to be expressed

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Obdurate

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Not easily moved to pity or sympathy

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Pathetic

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Expressing or arousing pity, sorrow, sympathy

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Privation

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Depriving or being deprived

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Providance

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The care or benevolent guidance of god or nature

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Ascertain

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To find out with certainty

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Barouche

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A four wheeled carriage with a collapsible hood

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Equipage

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To call down evil upon, to curse or speak abusively

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Imbible

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To drink

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Strategaem

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A trick or scheme

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Sunder

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To break apart, separte

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Debasing

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Lowering in character, quality, or value

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Homage

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Anything done to show respect

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Immutable
Never changing
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Ahorrence
Loathing, disgust
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Egotistical
An exaggerated sense of self importance
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Interposition
An intervention
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Manifestation
Clear or evident formation
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Scurf
Little dry scales by the skin
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Atrocious
Very cruel, eveil
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Festering
Growing embittered
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Lacereted
Torn jaggedly, mangled
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Odium
An object of loathing
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Offal
Waste parts, entrails
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Vestiage
Trace of something that once existed but has diapered or passed away
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Bestow
To give or present as gift
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Chattel
A movable item such as a piece of furniture or also used to describe a slave
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Denunciation
A public accusal
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Depravitiy
Corruption
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Emancipation
The release from bondage or servitude
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Precepts
Commandments
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Callous
Lacking pity or mercy
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Dissipation
Indulgence in pleasure to the point kf harming omeself
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Profligage
Extremely wasteful
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Valuation
The act of determining the value or price
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copyist
a person who makes wrtieen coppies
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pernicious
causing great injury
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subsist
to stay alive and to continue
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sufficiency
adequate means, ability, resources
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ague
a fever with chills
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brute
an unreasoning person
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epoch
the beginning og a new and important period of history
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imblue
to permeate or inspire
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languished
became slack or dull
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quailed
lost heart, grwe feeble
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turbid
muddy, cloudy, confused
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esculpate
to free from blame
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fetters
shcakles or chains
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habiliments
clothing,dress
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refinement
cultivation, education