Vocabulary
"Into the Text"
Author's Background
Vocabulary in Action
"The Old Stuff"
100
Miscellaneous, various
What is Sundry?
100
"When Olaudah Equiano was ___ years old, he and his sister were kidnapped." (p. 94)
What is 11?
100
_______ Equiano?
What is Olaudah?
100
_______, plentiful, ample
What is copious?
100
Ralph ______ Emerson
What is Waldo?
200
To become weak
What is languish?
200
The name of the slave owner Douglass was sold to.
Who is Covey?
200
The year Equiano was sold to a merchant in Philadelphia
What is 1763?
200
______, torment, agony
What is anguish?
200
Thoreau
What is Henry David?
300
Miserable
What is wretched?
300
The date Frederick Douglass was sold to Mr. Covey.
What is January 1, 1833?
300
The name of the President Douglass advised.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Mediate, _________, intercede
What is Interpose?
300
An essay written by a gentleman desiring to free India from British rule.
What is "On Civil Disobedience"?
400
A strong, foul odor
What is stench?
400
"My _______ was almost always his excuse for whipping me." (p. 564)
What is his awkwardness?
400
The year Douglass died.
What is 1895?
400
Allude, ______, infer
What is Intimate?
400
"If a plant cannot love according to its nature; it dies; and so a man." (p. 376)
What is an aphorism?
500
In name but not in reality
What is nominal?
500
The location where the ship first anchored to sell Equiano and others on board.
What is Barbados?
500
The location where Equiano's work was first published.
What is London?
500
Alarm, _______, dismay
What is consternation?
500
An essay written by Martin Luther King Jr.
What is A Stride Toward Freedom?
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