Sounds About Right
Well, THAT escalated quickly.
You Can Say That?
That's a Word?
No. Just . . . No.
100
The names of the period of time after the Puritans that is marked by scientific discovery and philosophical thought.
What is the Age of Reason and the Age of Enlightenment?
100
The reason England was low on funds and felt it needed to tax the colonists.
What was the French and Indian War?
100
If you are trying to work around the system to get what you want, you are doing this.
What is circumvent?
100
The --- traits of teenagers is their stooped backs and shuffling feet because they are always looking down at their phones as they walk.
What is predominant?
100
A repeating pattern of modifiers, as in "King Alfraed made the law clear, precise, and equitable."
What is parallelism?
200
The time in Europe when logical thinking began to supplant trust in old authorities
What is the 17th-18th centuries (or 1600-1700s)?
200
This event made Patrick Henry famous for saying, "No taxation without representation!"
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
200
Last week, Hurricane Florence's track was in a state of --- because it kept changing rapidly, and for one day, it looked like we might be in its path.
ferment
200
A --- student would have prepared for this test by studying her notes every night, not just the night before the test.
What is vigilant?
200
Parallel structure that uses contrasting words, as in “Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing.”
What is antithesis?
300
The philosophy that humans can get to the truth of things not by relying on what the Church or the Monarchy told them, but by applying logic
What is Rationalism?
300
The Act that dissolved Massachusetts' legislature after Boston organized a boycott on the the items being taxed, which included not only paper but also paint, lead, glass, and Tea?
What are the Townsend Acts of 1767?
300
Rationalists based their thinking on --- evidence, but is it rational to believe Earth is flat today with all the observable evidence we have today?
empirical
300
England ---d on the colonists' rights to representation by ---ing a tax to pay for something they didn't ask for.
What are infringe. . . impos(e)?
300
Repeating a word or phrase at the beginning of phrases or clauses that are close together, as in 
What is anaphora?
400
Unlike "revealed" religion, which is revealed to the world by a prophet or a sacred text, this manner of faith held that humans do not need saving, but rather could reach perfection by using their God-given ability to reason.
What is Deism?
400
The law responsible for the Boston Tea Party
What is the Tea Act of 1773?
400
The nurse --- the child who had skinned his knee by giving him a sucker as a form of ---, and he stopped crying.
What are mollified and succour?
400
These words are synonyms for false appearance.
What are guise and facade?
400
What is antithesis?
500
This is an important difference between beliefs of Puritans and philosophers like Franklin and Paine about God and man's salvation.
What is the idea that the sin of Adam does not make all mankind sinners? that man can perfect himself through logic? (accept all appropriate answers)
500
At least three actions authorized by the Intolerable Acts of 1774
What are:
§Shut down port of Boston
§Forbade meetings
§British troops could be housed in colonists’ homes
§No British officials could be tried in colonies
§Annulled charter of colonies, put British Governor in charge of all
500
Cleaning your room by throwing all your mess under the bed --- your show of ---, especially if that mess is smelly.
What are belies . . . industry?
500
Shouting "fire" in a crowded theater is punishable by law because it ---s the crowd into a --- that can be deadly.
What are foment and ferment?
500
Parallelism and anaphora both use this, though it may be in different ways.
What is repetition?