W
This word means: unconquerable, refusing to yield
What is indomitable?
This word means: knightly, marked by honor, courtesy, and courage
What is chivalrous?
This word means: to walk heavily or slowly
What is plod?
This word means: to go abroad, to commence
What is embark?
This word means: relaxation/ calm/ rest or to rest, to lie down
What is repose?
This word means: one who does good to others
What is benefactor?
This word means: causing a sharp sensation (often smell)
What is pungent?
This word means: neglectful of one's duty
What is remiss?
This word means: a lack of agreement, a difference
What is discrepancy?
This word means: unable to fail, free from error or fault
What is infallible?
This word means: agreement or to express agreement
What is assent?
This word means: sincere, real, without pretense
What is unfeigned?
This word means: selfless, concerned with the welfare of others
What is altruistic?
This word means: easily done or accomplished
What is facile?
This word means: mercy, humaneness
What is clemency?
This word means: rashness, boldness
What is temerity?
This word means: malicious, poisonous, spiteful
What is virulent?
This word means: a scarcity, a lack
What is dearth?
This word means: fierce and cruel, aggressive, destructive
What is truculent?
This word means: shy, reserved, modest
What is diffident?
Douglass learned to read and write in the Baltimore streets by whom?
Little white boys
What to the mind of slaveholders was dangerous about education?
Knowledge= discontent, an awareness of their own "wretchedness"
Running away
Douglass's mistress would fly into a rage if she saw him with this in his hand
A newspaper
Douglass often gives credit to "Providence" for guiding him through these years of his life. What is providence?
The protective care of God, God's intervention in human life (anyone remember the Puritans?)