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100
The meaning of chide
What is to scold someone?
100
The meaning of sufficient
What is enough?
100
The national holiday after which Douglass gave his famous 1852 speech (the one we studied in class)
What is the Fourth of July?
100
The religious group that Anne Bradstreet was a part of
The Puritans
100
A government where power is held by the people and their representatives, not a king or queen.
What is a republic?
200
The vocabulary word that means to live or to dwell
What is to abide?
200
If you say one thing but do another, you are displaying ____________________?
What is hypocrisy?
200
Either of the two national documents Douglass praised in his speech "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
What is the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution?
200
The number of poems that were found in Emily Dickinson's drawers after her death
Between 1500 and 1700
200
The year the American Civil War began
What is 1860?
300
What is a yoke?
300
The vocabulary word that means "to ask for?"
What is entreat?
300
The social movement committed to ending slavery that Douglass helped to lead
What is abolitionism?
300
The genre that Edgar Allan Poe is most known for.
What is the Gothic tale?
300
The day, month, and year, that the Declaration of Independence was signed.
What is July 4, 1776
400
After you lose a loved one, you may feel this way.
What is bereft?
400
The word that describes someone who takes and takes and takes without giving back. They would be full of _________________?
What is avarice?
400
How Douglass hid when he escaped from slavery.
What is he disguised himself as a navy sailor and took the train.
400
The four writers that we have studied so far in Unit 4.
Who are Bradstreet, Poe, Douglass, and Dickinson
400
The magazine is an example of this kind of media that was becoming more widespread in the time of Poe, Dickinson, and Douglass.
What is mass media?
500
You could use this word to say goodbye in Paris, France.
What is adieu?
500
A long, empty speech
What is bombast?
500
The name of the hall in which Frederick Douglass gave his speech, "What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
What is Corinthian Hall?
500
The name of the poet Edgar Allan Poe fell in love with while his wife was dying.
Who is Frances Sargent Osgood?
500
The place we are in the Vocabulary Bowl today.
What is depends on how hard you work :)