Collection 3: Civil Disobedience

As you read Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," learn this word list. Here are links to lists for texts in Grade 12's Collection 3: On the Vietnam War, 1967, The Crisis, Civil Disobedience, The Clan of One-Breasted Women, A Modest Proposal, Imagine the Angels of Bread
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  1. Mexican War
    after disputes over Texas lands that were settled by Mexicans the United States declared war on Mexico in 1846 and by treaty in 1848 took Texas and California and Arizona and New Mexico and Nevada and Utah and part of Colorado and paid Mexico $15,000,000
  2. powder monkey
    someone who carries explosives
  3. palpitation
    a rapid and irregular heart beat
  4. magazine
    a storehouse where weapons and ammunition are stored
  5. unscrupulous
    without principles
  6. black art
    the belief in magical spells that harness occult forces or evil spirits to produce unnatural effects in the world
  7. reminiscence
    a mental impression retained and recalled from the past
  8. rampart
    an embankment built around a space for defensive purposes
  9. posse comitatus
    a temporary police force
  10. Copernicus
    Polish astronomer who produced a workable model of the solar system with the sun in the center (1473-1543)
  11. Martin Luther
    German theologian who led the Reformation
  12. transgress
    act in disregard of laws, rules, contracts, or promises
  13. friction
    the resistance when a body is moved in contact with another
  14. posture
    capability that affects the capacity to fight a war
  15. affairs
    transactions of professional or public interest
  16. impetuous
    characterized by undue haste and lack of thought
  17. afflict
    cause physical pain or suffering in
  18. underbred
    (of persons) lacking in refinement or grace
  19. hindrance
    any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome
  20. strait
    a bad or difficult situation or state of affairs
Created on Thu Jul 10 11:31:42 EDT 2014 (updated Thu Jul 10 13:30:33 EDT 2014)

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