Frederick Douglass Vocabulary Quiz 2

ignorant

• order by virtue of superior authority; decree

• make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude

• lacking knowledge of a specific field

• extremely evil or cruel

sloop

• a sailing vessel with a single mast

• make receptive or willing towards an action or attitude

• without change, in every case

• order by virtue of superior authority; decree

Select the best definition for the bold word:

He seemed to take pleasure in manifesting his fiendish barbarity.

• reveal its presence or make an appearance

• the guardianship and control exercised by a deity

• regard highly; think much of

• feeling great delight

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Few privileges were esteemed higher, by the slaves of the out-farms, than that of being selected to do errands at the Great House Farm.

• a sailing vessel with a single mast

• the act of stripping someone of food, money, or rights

• profane language

• regard highly; think much of

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Called thus suddenly away, she left me without the slightest intimation of who my father was.

• without change, in every case

• a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others

• a club that is used as a weapon

• a slight suggestion or vague understanding

odious

• a slight suggestion or vague understanding

• improperly forward or bold

• lacking knowledge of a specific field

• extremely repulsive or unpleasant

infernal

• the formation of conclusions from incomplete evidence

• extremely evil or cruel

• the act of stripping someone of food, money, or rights

• a beam used to support a floor or ceiling

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The field was the place to witness his cruelty and profanity. His presence made it both the field of blood and of blasphemy.

• a club that is used as a weapon

• profane language

• give expression to

• a disposition or tendency to yield to the will of others

Select the best definition for the bold word:

The whisper that my master was my father, may or may not be true; and, true or false, it is of but little consequence to my purpose whilst the fact remains, in all its glaring odiousness, that slaveholders have ordained, and by law established, that the children of slave women shall in all cases follow the condition of their mothers...

• a club that is used as a weapon

• an inclination to favor one group or view over alternatives

• improperly forward or bold

• order by virtue of superior authority; decree

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There were no beds given the slaves, unless one coarse blanket be considered such, and none but the men and women had these. This, however, is not considered a very great privation.

• the act of stripping someone of food, money, or rights

• regard highly; think much of

• without change, in every case

• extremely repulsive or unpleasant