Two Roads Vocabulary Quiz

Recalcitrants

• People who disobey the rules

• People who follow the rules

• People who don't like rules

• All human beings in existence ever

Lingering

• To stop

• To leave

• To stay

• To walk away

Guffawing

• Crying in a loud, uncontrollable way

• Laughing in a loud, boisterous way

• The sound you make when greeting farm animals in the morning

• The sound a donkey makes

Subdued

• To be submerged under water

• To lay down and go to sleep

• To give orders to someone

• Overcome or conquer

Plight

• A happy or joyful situation

• An unhappy or unlucky situation

• A frustrating flight with crying babies and turbulence

• A type of disease or sickness

Manifest Destiny

• The belief that it was the job of the U.S. to spread and acquire more land

• The belief that is a person's responsibility to make his or her destiny happen

• The belief that you have to manifest your own destiny in life

• The belief that people do not have a destiny to manifest

Assimilate

• To start a brand new club or group

• To cause a person or group to become part of a different society, country, etc.

• To spread out and acquire more land for your own country.

• To overcome a difficult situation

Acculturate

• To get rid of your culture completely

• To share your culture with another person or group of people

• To cause a person or group to become part of a different society

• To make one culture more like another

Passel

• A large group

• A passing grade in class

• A bushel of apples

• A small strip of land

Forebears

• Four bears in the woods

• Ancestors

• Future generations

• Founding members of the U.S.