Unit 1: Selection Vocabulary 4

This list covers "A Voice" and "Speech to the Second Virginia Convention."
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  1. unrelenting
    harsh
    Even the lights on the stage unrelenting
    as the desert sun couldn’t hide the other
    students, their eyes also unrelenting,
    students who spoke English every night
  2. judge
    an official who decides questions before a court
    In your house that smelled like
    rose powder, you spoke Spanish formal
    as your father, the judge without a courtroom
  3. patriotism
    love of country and willingness to sacrifice for it
    You liked
    writing speeches about patriotism and democracy.
  4. democracy
    a political system in which power lies in a body of citizens
    You liked
    writing speeches about patriotism and democracy.
  5. generation
    the normal time between successive groups of contemporaries
    This is America, Mom. The undo-able is done

    in the next generation.
  6. address
    give a speech to
    Mr. President, no man thinks more highly than I do of the patriotism, as well as abilities, of the very worthy gentlemen who have just addressed the House.
  7. proportion
    relation with respect to comparative quantity or magnitude
    For my own part, I consider it as nothing less than a question of freedom or slavery; and in proportion to the magnitude of the subject ought to be the freedom of the debate.
  8. dispose
    make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude
    Are we disposed to be of the number of those who, having eyes, see not, and, having ears, hear not, the things which so nearly concern their temporal salvation?
  9. subjugation
    forced submission to control by others
    These are the implements of war and subjugation; the last arguments to which kings resort.
  10. formidable
    extremely impressive in strength or excellence
    They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary.
Created on Wed Dec 02 16:56:13 EST 2020 (updated Sun Dec 06 12:46:59 EST 2020)

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