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

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Never changing

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Ahorrence

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Loathing, disgust

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Egotistical

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An exaggerated sense of self importance

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Interposition

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An intervention

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Manifestation

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Clear or evident formation

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Scurf

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Little dry scales by the skin

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Atrocious

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Very cruel, eveil

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Festering

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Growing embittered

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Lacereted

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Torn jaggedly, mangled

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Odium

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An object of loathing

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Offal

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Waste parts, entrails

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Vestiage

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Trace of something that once existed but has diapered or passed away

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Bestow

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To give or present as gift

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Chattel

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A movable item such as a piece of furniture or also used to describe a slave

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Denunciation

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A public accusal

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Depravitiy

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Corruption

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Emancipation

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The release from bondage or servitude

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Precepts

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Commandments

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Callous

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Lacking pity or mercy

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Dissipation

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Indulgence in pleasure to the point kf harming omeself

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Profligage

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Extremely wasteful

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Valuation

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The act of determining the value or price

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copyist

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a person who makes wrtieen coppies

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pernicious

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causing great injury

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subsist

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to stay alive and to continue

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sufficiency

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adequate means, ability, resources

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ague

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a fever with chills

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brute

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an unreasoning person

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epoch

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the beginning og a new and important period of history

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imblue

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to permeate or inspire

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languished

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became slack or dull

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quailed

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lost heart, grwe feeble

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turbid

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muddy, cloudy, confused

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esculpate

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to free from blame

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fetters

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shcakles or chains

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habiliments

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clothing,dress

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refinement

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cultivation, education