Unit 1: Novel Study: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Chapters 1–6

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  1. tractable
    easily managed
  2. levy
    impose and collect
  3. capitulate
    surrender under agreed conditions
  4. stimulate
    act to arouse action
  5. reassurance
    the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence
  6. contingent
    a gathering of persons representative of some larger group
  7. pittance
    an inadequate payment
  8. insatiable
    impossible to fulfill, appease, or gratify
  9. magnanimity
    nobility and generosity of spirit
  10. incorrigible
    impervious to correction by punishment
  11. indiscriminate
    failing to make or recognize distinctions
  12. dissension
    a conflict of people's opinions, actions, or characters
  13. abject
    most unfortunate or miserable
  14. appropriate
    suitable for a particular person, place, or situation
  15. abrogate
    revoke formally
  16. commence
    take the first step or steps in carrying out an action
  17. depredation
    an act of plundering and pillaging and marauding
  18. secure
    shield from danger, injury, destruction, or damage
  19. brusque
    rudely abrupt or blunt in speech or manner
  20. dispose
    make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude
  21. tumult
    violent agitation
  22. crude
    not carefully or expertly made
  23. virtual
    existing in essence or effect though not in actual fact
  24. rebuke
    censure severely or angrily
  25. conciliatory
    intended to placate
  26. stratagem
    an elaborate or deceitful scheme to deceive or evade
  27. confront
    oppose, as in hostility or a competition
  28. subdued
    quieted and brought under control
  29. coterie
    an exclusive circle of people with a common purpose
Created on Tue Dec 08 14:25:51 EST 2020 (updated Tue Feb 02 11:05:02 EST 2021)

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