Ben Franklin Vocabulary Quiz

x a private high school; a school that trains people in a special field

• tyrants

• academy

• colonial

• spires

a load of electricity

• inventions

• lightning rod

• spires

• charge

a thing that is made or thought for the first time

• genuine

• eclipse

• invention

• lightning rod

a darkening or hiding of the sun by the moon, or of the moon by Earth's shadow

• genuine

• eclipse

• spires

• invention

the hard, woody, often hollow stem of a specific tropical plant

• lightning rod

• tyrant

• bamboo

• mast

relating to a colony; relating to the 13 British colonies

• colonial

• eclipse

• forecast

• charge

prediction about what will happen based on evidence

• genuine

• bamboo

• spires

• forecast

a person who uses power in a cruel or unjust way

• spire

• tyrant

• mast

• academy

real; true

• forecast

• charge

• genuine

• tyrant

a metal conductor installed to divert lightning away from a structure

• mast

• lightning rod

• colonial

• charge