Reading- Across America On An Immigrant Train Flashcards

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Famine

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Extreme scarcity of food.

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TransContinental

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Passing through or across the continent; The Latin root trans means across or over.

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Russian Mennonites

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The Mennonites were Christians who are committed to nonviolence is on volunteer services.

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Emigrant

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The person reads one country to go settle in another( even from a person has entered America, he may still continue to travel to his Final destination, he has not settled yet.)

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Immigrant

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The person who has settled in another country.

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Brain fever

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An inflammation of the brain tissue caused by bacterial infection.

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Abscond

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To run away or leave quickly

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Steerage

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Cheap accommodations on the passenger ship

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Partition

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Ethan interior wall dividing A room.

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Inscrutable

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Not easily understood; mysterious

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Indulgence

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And at that satisfies one’s desires.

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Gall

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To irritate greatly

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Quota

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The number or percentage of people full of a specific type

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Debarked

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To leave a boat or ship

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Personage

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A person or character.

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Assault

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A sudden, violent attack

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Potshot

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A shot a person or animal with an easy range

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Green Horn

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Describes a person who is inexperienced or untrained

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Monotony

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A wearisome lack of variety, as in a monotonous

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Palatable

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Acceptable or agreeable, such as in taste

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Quagmire

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An area of boggy, wet ground that yields underfoot

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Dime novel

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$.10 novels popular in the 19 century and early 20th century for its melodramatic or sensational Account of Wildwest adventures

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Melodramatic

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Overly exaggerated, emotional, or sensationalize

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Patriarchal

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In this content, simply male or of a high Male right

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Civility
Courtesy or politeness
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Hostile terrain
land that is unfavorable to life or growth
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Amorphous
Lacking definite form, having no definite shape
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Berth
A shelf like sleeping space
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Plateau
A flat area of land that is considerably raised above the land surrounding it; Usually cut by deep canyons.
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Belligerent
Warlike
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Vindictive
Intent on getting revenge
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Vagabond
Someone without A permanent home, who wanders from place to place without visible support.
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Decimate
to destroy and kill a great number of people, animals, or things
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Genocide
The deliberate extermination of a national, racial, political, or cultural group.
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Stoicism
Indifference to pleasure or pain; often used to describe one who does not show emotion
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Concession
An act of you yielding or giving something
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Ravine
A narrow deep valley that usually has running water on one side... Or in Minecraft a big section of land that is Narrow and cut out from the earth.
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Cape Horn
Considered one of the most dangerous places in the world
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Scorn
To cruelly poke fun of or jeer at.
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Ironic
Completely the opposite of what one might expect.
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Giddy
Completely the opposite of what one might expect.