Charlotte Doyle Part 2 Vocabulary

petitioner

•  not likely to happen

• a meeting to make decisions

• one who makes a formal request

• repayment for injury; compensation

improbable

•  not likely to happen

• a meeting to make decisions

• one who makes a formal request

• repayment for injury; compensation

caucus

•  not likely to happen

• a meeting to make decisions

• one who makes a formal request

• repayment for injury; compensation

restitution

•  not likely to happen

• a meeting to make decisions

• one who makes a formal request

• repayment for injury; compensation

thwarting

• lowering in rank or grade 

• to prevent someone from accomplishing something 

• to hurt someone’s self-respect or pride

• satisfaction for a wrong or injury; amends 

atonement

• lowering in rank or grade 

• to prevent someone from accomplishing something 

• to hurt someone’s self-respect or pride

• satisfaction for a wrong or injury; amends 

humiliate

• lowering in rank or grade 

• to prevent someone from accomplishing something 

• to hurt someone’s self-respect or pride

• satisfaction for a wrong or injury; amends 

demotion

• lowering in rank or grade 

• to prevent someone from accomplishing something 

• to hurt someone’s self-respect or pride

• satisfaction for a wrong or injury; amends 

fraud

• to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way 

• apart; divided

• to make gestures for emphasis 

• a dishonest act that results in personal gain

asunder

• to thrash about in a clumsy or ineffective way 

• apart; divided

• to make gestures for emphasis 

• a dishonest act that results in personal gain